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How to deal with Mushroom Posioning
1. If you suspect mushroom poisoning and the victim hasn't yet vomited, immediately induce vomiting or go to an emergency room for stomach pumping. 2. Most mushrooms aren't poisonous. Of the poisonous ones, most are not deadly. But some are. 3. If you're planning to eat wild or home-grown mushrooms, get emergency mushroom identification info and medical guidelines for doctors treating each type of possible mushroom poisoning. 4. And keep a mycologist's phone number available. Your local mushroom club, college/university, or poison control center can recommend one. 5. Ask your mycologist for help with the identification. 6. It is essential to identify the mushroom that has been eaten before treating the poisoning. A wrong mushroom identification can result in a fatal error in treatment
or a failure to stop potential total kidney destruction. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary H. Lincoff (color pictures of 700 mushrooms) and A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms by Weber and Smith may help. 7. Eating or even possessing hallucinogenic
mushrooms is a felony in some states. But it is not a crime to eat such a mushroom by mistake. 8. Pre-puberty-age children are far more sensitive to all mushroom poisons than are adults! They are more likely to eat the wrong mushrooms and to eat them raw (the most toxic form). Small (low-body-weight) children have died from eating psilocybin and psilocin mushrooms. 9. Even regular edible mushrooms can cause food poisoning if they aren't fresh—if they are moldy or being eaten by
bugs—because mushrooms spoil much as meat does. 10. It's important to learn when the mushrooms were eaten and when the symptoms began. Delayed nausea/diarrhea (6 hours or more after eating) suggests the more dangerous kidney-destroying toxin. 11. Mushroom poisoning always starts with symptoms of nausea, usually resulting in vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea that may even have blood in it.
Intravenous fluid may be needed. But those are just the
first-stage symptoms. Serious symptoms of poisoning (kidney/ liver failure) typically appear only 3 days to 2 weeks later. 12. Find out if anybody else ate the poisonous mushrooms so they can be treated too!
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This intel reflects only one of my activities. I also write about and/or have websites on Vespa Scooters, Lambretta Scooters, Hardy Banana plants, Medical memorabilia, reborn baby dolls and much more. Hope you enjoyed the read, Philip Davey
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