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Causes

1. Drug Induced

• Anesthetics like *benzocaine, *lidocaine, *prilocaine

• *Methylene blue

• *Nitric oxide

• *Amilnitrate

• *Nitroglycerin

• Antimalarial drugs like *Primaquine phosphate (in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) methemoglobin reductase deficient individuals)

• *Rasburicase

• *Sulfasalazine

• *Dapsone

• *Trimethoprim

• *Sulfonamides

• *Aniline dyes

• *Metoclopramide

• *Chlorates and Bromates

2. Contaminated well water (in babies)

3. Solid foods (in babies)

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