Children with imperfectly formed hearts may be otherwise perfect at birth, but they have a bluish color due to the imperfect supply of the blood with oxygen, and are known as blue babies.
Rarely, this opening never closes and we have what is called a "blue baby," which seldom lives very long.
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Nitrite pollution is linked with thebluebabysyndrome.
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Nitrates may cause 'bluebabysyndrome' in newborns, but the condition is very rare.
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It is clear that there is a disease calledbluebabysyndrome or methaeglobinaemia.
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The health problem being tackled by this massive expenditure is the "bluebaby" syndrome.
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We are talking of the possibility of nitrates causing thebluebabysyndrome and cancer.
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That is not a good case for identifying a desperate need to do something about nitrates in relation tobluebabysyndrome.
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The term "bluebabysyndrome" is sometimes used to refer to infantile methaemoglobinaemia.
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At high levels they cause abluebabysyndrome, and considerable problems of eutrophication in rivers and coastal waters especially in continental countries.
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Nitrate pollution carries a risk of stomach cancer and a variety of conditions caused by impaired oxygen absorption, for instance thebluebabysyndrome.
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The reduced capacity to transport oxygen manifests itself particularly in young babies up to six months old and causes a condition which is commonly known as 'bluebabysyndrome'.
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This again is thebluebabysyndrome.
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The last knownbluebabycase was in 1972, and the other example of cancer of the stomach is suspect and very much in doubt indeed.
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Does he agree that iron oxide may not be shown to be inimical to health, but that nitrates certainly are, through the "bluebaby" syndrome at least?
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It is the most common cyanotic heart defect, and the most common cause ofbluebabysyndrome.
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Very specific problems includebluebaby, tomato mottle virus, costly uniforms.
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