Posted on 01/13/2021 6:28:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
Days before the ER visit, he had decided to use mushrooms by first boiling them down into what he called “mushroom tea,” then filtering the mixture through a cotton swab and intravenously injecting it. Soon after, he developed symptoms including lethargy, jaundice, diarrhea, and nausea, along with vomiting up blood.
By the time he was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit, multiple organs had started to fail, including his lungs and kidney. Tests revealed that he had both a bacterial and fungal infection in his blood, meaning that the mushrooms he injected were now literally feeding off him and growing. Among other treatments, he was given an intense course of antibiotics and antifungal drugs.
At the time his doctors had finished writing the case up, though, he was still being treated with a long-term course of antimicrobials.
McKnight and his co-authors note that psychedelic mushrooms—consumed in a safe way—really do seem to be hopeful treatments for depression and substance use disorders. There are ongoing efforts to legalize these drugs for psychiatric use in the U.S. (Oregon became the first state this November to do so), but in the meantime, there will be people who turn to them as an alternative or in addition to their current treatments on their own, as this man did. For those people, it’s important to emphasize the potential risks of these drugs and the safest ways to use them. Though mushrooms can cause side effects like nausea and increased anxiety, for instance, they’re not thought to pose much risk of serious long-term harm, assuming you’re not injecting them.
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Everyone in this thread paid for the treatment to save this reprobate.
“Give it to me straight Doc, I can take it!”
- Dr. Johnny Fever, WKRP, Cincinnati.
and the zombies were very happy when they got done with him
Well, Yeah.
If your in Florida just wait until it rains. Go out into any cow pasture and kick over cow pies. Viola, magic mushrooms. Cows is big bidness in Florida. If you can’t find magic mushrooms you ain’t trying. And those suckers is really magic!
They probably ate it for food and had a side effect. But humans being humans some folks liked that side effect. Think about the first guy to figure out alcohol, people like getting high.
He should tattoo his eyeballs and have his butt injected with silicone caulk next.
I use to live next to a retired Surgeon. You can’t believe some of the stories he told me of stoopids coming in to the emergency room.
You did WHAT?
In Russia, psychedelic mushrooms take you.
What a shame. He didn’t die.
If he had not procreated he could have been a Darwin Award Candidate.
Fungi will be around after the last bomb explodes even if we are not. They are as durable as Lichen. Just about nothing kills them.
Possible Darwin award candidate if he dies.
They had two dogs, a doberman and a German Shepherd, that died after they had bitten into a poisonous toad native to that country.............
Desert toads here in Tucson are very dangerous to dogs. I guess a lot of toads exude something or other.
Never saw it but it's definitely at the top of my list of must watch movies now................Any Oscar nominations?..........LOL!
Darwin award candidate.
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