What causes the blue color in blue diaper syndrome?
Blue diaper syndrome is an inborn error of amino acid metabolism. The amino acid tryptophan is malabsorped in the intestinal lining of newborn infants. The syndrome is known to be an autosomal recessive trait. It is believed that a mutation in the tryptophan transport protein causes a baby’s diaper to turn blue once the urine touches the diaper. This was caused by the bacteria that acted on urine precursor’s to produce a compound that turned indigo blue upon contact with air.Unfortenutely there was limited information on blue diaper syndrome , but there were other disorders that were caused by inborn error’s of amino acid metabolism. The cause of the mutation in blue diaper is not really known, but one might suggest an explanation or hypothesis. Since there are bacteria that are activated and begin to act on the precursors of the compound that releases the blue color, one might speculate that there maybe some kind of mutation in the gene that transports the amino acid tryptophan or a m
