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Skin Bluish Coloration (Cyanosis)
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Get urgent medical care now if there is any severe, sudden, rapidly worsening or worrying symptom, especially:
- chest pain, pressure or pain spreading to the arm, jaw or back
- trouble breathing, blue lips, severe wheeze or choking
- stroke-like symptoms such as face drooping, arm weakness or speech trouble
- collapse, fainting, seizure, confusion or extreme drowsiness
- severe bleeding, black stools, vomiting blood or major injury
- severe allergic reaction, swelling of the face/throat or widespread rash with breathing trouble
- severe abdominal pain, severe headache, stiff neck or sudden vision change
- signs of severe dehydration, sepsis, high fever with worsening illness, or symptoms in a baby/young child that concern you
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Skin Bluish Coloration (Cyanosis)
Cyanosis
Skin is a bluish colour, caused by lack of oxygen in the blood.
Tags: blue, skin
Symptom classification
Body areaBlood
Body areaEntire Body
Body areaSkin
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
52- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Acrocyanosis
- Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
- Acute Lung Injury
- Amniotic Fluid Embolism
- Anaphylactic Reaction
- Angina
- Asthma
- Atelectasis
- Atrial Septal Defect
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Central Sleep Apnea
- Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease
- Croup
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Diaphragmatic Hernia
- Eisenmengers Syndrome
- Epiglottitis
- Esophageal Atresia
- Esophageal Rupture
- Heart Failure
- Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Lung Failure
- Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia
- Macroglobulinemia
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Neonatal Pneumonia
- Oesophageal Atresia
- Parainfluenza Virus Infections
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Perinatal Polycythemia and Hyperviscosity Syndrome
- Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of The Newborn (PPHN)
- Plague
- Pneumonia
- Polycythemia Vera
- Pulmonary Edema
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Renal Syndrome
- Pulmonic Stenosis
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Shock
- Silicosis
- Tetanus
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transient Tachypnea of The Newborn
- Transposition of The Great Arteries
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Ventilatory Failure
- Ventricular Septal Defect