If you're eating mushrooms handed to you by some Bay Area dirty hippie, Darwin will take it's course.
Posted on 06/08/2017 11:35:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A rise in the number of wild mushroom poisonings in the Bay Area may be linked to our wet winter, state officials said.
The California Poison Control System says 14 cases were reported in five counties in December. Three of the victims required liver transplants. The youngest victim was just 18 months old.
Poison control says it usually sees just a few cases of so-called "death cap" mushroom poisonings each year. Experts say the abundance of rain likely caused more of the wild mushrooms to sprout.
Doctors say symptoms don't appear for many hours, and by then the toxicity is often absorbed into the liver.
"It can destroy your liver in a few days," Dr. Craig Smollin said. "The other issue is there is no good antedote."
Doctors advise not eating wild mushrooms unless you are professionally trained to identify them.
More likely it’s due to global warm...er, climate change.
It is not related to wet winter, it is related to idiots having no idea which mushrooms are safe to eat. How much you want to bet many of them are trying to get high?
Who knew rain forced idiots to pick and eat poisonous mushrooms. Ban rain!
“I just found this mushroom lying on the ground. I think I’ll eat it!”
“The youngest victim was just 18 months old.”
Watch your kids for goodness sake!!!
Yep.
It is linked to stupid people who do not recognize the deaths cap
Solution:
Do not eat wild ‘shrooms.................
I bet most of these cases were people trying to be ‘orgaaaaanic’...............
Probably fed to the kid by idiot parents.
That. California. Yes.
Lotta mushroom pickers here in Florida. Their main problem is that the mushrooms grow out of “cow pies” (organic Frisbees) and the contributions of the bovine have a foul “bouquet” and one can only imagine the flavor.
If you're eating mushrooms handed to you by some Bay Area dirty hippie, Darwin will take it's course.
I occasionally go mushroom foraging, and have found some of the most delicious fungi. Morels, several agaricus varieties, shaggy parasols, shaggy manes, etc. I had a Prince Agaricus in my YARD a couple of years ago. It was fantastic!
When I am uncertain, I have a number of reference books to check. If still uncertain, there is a mycologist on duty at the local forestry office Monday-Friday 9-4.
There is no excuse: When in Doubt, DON’T is the phrase when it comes to wild fungi.
More likely it’s due to an article recently that implied mushrooms are the “safest” intoxicant available.
As soon as anyone publishes an article claiming something is “safe”, people take that as permission to be stupid with it.
Most likely it is due to the rise in ignorant, illiterate foreigners.
Note they never say the citizenship of the victims, because they are mostly Asian noncitizens who shouldn’t be sullying my country in the first place.
That’s the pattern, anyway.
Most of the mushroom foragers I heard about in the area are Russian or Europeans. The Russian go in a get tons of procini, but they usually know what they are doing.
Morels are good but you have to wash them thoroughly, unless, of course, you like bugs. They’re good in spaghetti sauce.
Milk Thistle extract. The French have used it quite successfully. In spite of 0bamaCare I'm sure American doctors could administer it.
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