Pregnant Woman Rushed to ER As She's Going Blue Not Prepared for Diagnosis

During the early hours of the morning, Malin Haraldsen noticed her legs had turned blue.

Instantly, the Danish woman began to panic and her partner called the emergency services who wanted to see her right away.

Medics feared she may be suffering from a blood clot and while in the hospital, she noticed her fingers had changed color too.

Haraldsen, who is 22 weeks pregnant, took photos of her skin and shared a slide show to TikTok that racked up 10.4 million views.

"At midnight, I went to the bathroom and my legs looked normal," she told Newsweek. "An hour later, my legs looked like they were covered in bruises."

Haraldsen praises the hospital staff for taking her "super seriously" as they sent her off for an ultrasound.

As the hours passed, her legs started to turn almost black and everyone was extremely worried. According to the Mayo Clinic, a blood clot in a leg vein may cause pain, warmth and tenderness in the affected area. Indeed, the symptoms include the skin color on the area changing to red or purple, along with swelling and pain.

In this case, Haraldsen felt fine but she was extremely anxious in case something was wrong.

At 6.30 a.m. she was given blood thinners to prevent "new" blood clots from forming, after which medics made a diagnosis almost immediately.

There were no blood clots because the discoloration on her legs was caused by the dye in her pants running.

She told Newsweek: "I felt relieved, but so embarrassed."

Dye bleeding can happen for a number of reasons, according to lifestyle website The Spruce. These include:

• Incorrect dyeing techniques or poor quality dye
• The incorrect dye being used for the type of fabric (not all dyes work on all kinds of fabrics)
• The dye not being properly rinsed out leaving an excess of unattached dye in the fabric
• The manufacturer not using a fixative or mordant to bind the dye to the fabric

At the time of writing, the viral video shared to @mswarrttv has racked up 725,600 likes and almost 20,000 comments.

One user said: "I was NOT expecting that ending."

"ER nurse here and now I feel like we need to incorporate this in our training LMAOOO. Alcohol wipes for EVERYTHING with a funny color," said another user.

A third comment said: "This happened to me!! Literally thought I was dying turned out my leggings were dying me."

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