It happens every year.Someone eats poisonous mushrooms and wins in the hospital - or worse.Then I get better for enduring e -mails from involved friends and acquaintances.
This fall AConnecticut -Woman all her family poisoned.Reports say that the mushrooms she chose in the back garden and fed her husband, and two daughters were the notoriousDestroys Angel,,Amanita Bisporigera(The photo at the top).If it is true, the family is lucky.Three of them were released with their own liver of medical treatment last week.A fourth stayed in the hospital and - happy for her - was treated withSilibinine, an experimental drug goal that is used in Europe and only recently available in the US.
The toxins in deadly Amanitas such as the devastating angel andDeapicap((AMANITA FALLOIDER) Inhibits cell production in the liver and kidneys.Symptoms often do not occur to a few hours after intake and include vomiting and severe abdominal pain, followed by liver and kidney failure, liver coma and death.There is no antidote. Patients are usually treated with carbon solutions.Silibinin, made from an extract of milkist, seem to have antihepatotoxic properties - that is, it protects liver and kidney cells against toxins - and now seems to be the most promising remedy.
Big new experimental medicines aside, the best remedy is not to eat toxic mushrooms in the first place!Stories such as these shock people.But it is still possible to enjoy long improvement.Blot Observe filter Golden rule: Never eat anything that you cannot identify without 100 percent security.
To learn the skills of fungal identification, you must follow a class, participate in a mycological society, go into the field with a trusted mentor.Learn key function - properties by studying real mushrooms with fungal experts - not by looking at images in field guides.Assess the limits of your knowledge.Some species are easy to learn.Banterl, Porcini and Morelen are among our tastiest wild fungi and relatively easy to identify.Other species require more skill.Go slowly and enjoy the process.
The consequences of soft nibling of you by nature are too serious.For another Halloween Mushroom Scare Fest, read this upset report of oneAlmost fatal encounter with the devastating angel.
Photo at the topCornell Fungi.
