'Everything I touch turns blue': Mum's bizarre pregnancy symptom

"It was like I was leaking blue ink," the mum-to-be said, before showing her blue toilet seat, white bedsheets and clothes.

Eleanor Katelaris

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September 21, 2023 - 1:22PM

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A mum-to-be has taken to TikTok to share a strange pregnancy symptom that left her thinking she was turning into a blue Avatar.

Keisha Sethi, 24, said the unusual phenomenon saw her sweat turn blue, leaving many of her clothes and furniture also stained blue.

She then went on a mission to find out what was happening, only to find out that it was a rare condition.

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"I'm literally turning surfaces blue"

Taking to TikTok in a clip that now has 700k likes, Seithi said, "I'm literally turning surfaces blue."

She continues to explain, "So, yesterday I went to the toilet and when I got off the toilet seat it was blue. Literally, blue. And I was not even wearing any blue yesterday."

She then shows the top she wore to bed that night. It's a plain white singlet but it looks as though blue dye had spilt onto it.

"Even my pretty pink sheets!" she exclaims, holding up the stained white sheets.

"So as you do, you jump on Google, me and my partner were Googling until 1:00 am, and it was very relieving to know that a few other women have experienced this," she says.

Then Seithi shares a screenshot of one of the articles she found, which details more about the condition called 'chromhidrosis', often dubbed 'Smurf butt'.

The article from Healthline reads: "Chromhidrosis is a really rare condition in which you have an excess amount of lipofuscin in your sweat glands. Lipofuscin is essentially pigmented granules that collect in cells throughout the body. With chromhidrosis, the extra lipofuscin in the sweat glands causes you to sweat in colour. Of the many colours of sweat reported with chromhidrosis, blue is one."

"But I'm genuinely baffled because I thought I was becoming an Avatar," she concludes.

Then she shows the bright blue dress she's wearing and says, "This is why I decided to wear blue today, so I don't change the colour of my outfit."

"Baby's doing its own gender reveal"

Commenters were left in both shock and amazement, with some people even sharing that they had gone through the same thing too.

"Where's the lady with the list?" someone asked, referencing the woman on TikTok who lists why she doesn't want to have kids.

"IT HAPPENED TO ME!! I thought I was turning into a Smurf!!" someone revealed while another said they also experienced it and just thought their jeans were leaking onto their clothes.

Then a third joked, "Name your baby Denim."

And someone else chimed in saying, "Baby's doing its own gender reveal."

"That's sooo interesting, never heard of this before," wrote someone else.

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