Chinese chain-smoker's entire body turns yellow
Chinese chain-smoker's entire body turns yellow
(Web Desk) - Doctors have discovered the reason a man’s entire body turned bright yellow - making it look as if he had been coloured with paint.
The 60-year-old man, identified only by the surname Du, had been rushed to hospital after feeling unwell and then noticing that his body had turned luminous.
He was taken to a hospital in the city of Huai’an, in the eastern-central Chinese province of Jiangsu, where doctors diagnosed him with jaundice caused by a tumour in his pancreas that was so large it was blocking the bile ducts.
They said that they believed years of chain-smoking had contributed to the tumour and they also found a second tumour in another part of his body.
The man’s lifestyle, they said, had involved heavy smoking and drinking for more than three decades, and after removing the tumours, urged him to give up both if he wanted to have a chance of survival.
They said that the tumour that was blocking his bile duct had been diagnosed as malignant, and he now needs to go through treatment which involves him also stopping smoking and drinking to have the best chance of success.
Since the operation to remove the tumours, his skin has returned to its normal colour.
