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Before Dying Purple Foam Came Out Of Mouth. What It Could Be?
My grandma 86 years old, she was sick and was on hospice and died within 24 hours, it happened fast, just before she passed she had a purple foam coming out of her mouth, I ask the hospice nurse what it was and she did not know? My was the foam purple
Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Hi,
Sorry to hear about your grandma.
It might be altered blood which came out of her mouth. Very often in the very sick, blood can come out from ruptured vessels and exit through normal orifices like mouth, nose, ears. Your grandma might have had the same.
Sorry to hear about your grandma.
It might be altered blood which came out of her mouth. Very often in the very sick, blood can come out from ruptured vessels and exit through normal orifices like mouth, nose, ears. Your grandma might have had the same.
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