Hello....My friend passed away in her sleep an we found him this morning.....he was purple and foaming at the mouth.....we have not heard from the coroners and we know it will not be for a while.....I guess im wondering if he had a heart attack in his sleep?
Hi, Dear,Thanks for your query to Chat Doctor. Dear I read facts of your query and reviewed it in context to your health issues submitted. I understood your health concerns and feel Concerned about them. Your friend seem to have died by heart attack or from respiratory arrest. This could be normal death or from foul play. Other causes of mouth foaming after death needs to be fixed by autopsy before giving exact cause of death in your friends case. Cause of this purple face and foaming mouth after death could be due to-due many reasons-cardiac/respiratory failure/could be from poisoning / or death from sleep apnea. Review of the other causes is needed for proper diagnosis of death in your friends case. You need to take opinion from -family doctor and Coroner and forensic expert doctor. For this to verify Second opinion from family doctor/ Physician/forensic doctor - would be needed. Just don't worry and be patient and co-operate with your doctors, till you verify with your attending doctors. Hope this would help you to treat your health issues in the best way possible. Welcome for any further query in this regard to following link-http