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Help docs! my sons chin and lips are blue. is he sick?

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Maybe: If his lips are really blue he needs to be seen asap. He may also just have a vascular instability that causes them to be bluish....Any time lips are blue a child needs to be seen.

Answered 12/25/2013

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