Posted on 12/07/2025 8:21:40 PM PST by Red Badger
I just smell mushrooms, never had a bad one yet !
One of the two most deadly mushrooms in the world. Neither is really hard to identify.
Milk Thistle extract is the most effective treatment but you need to take it soon after ingesting the shrooms and you probably ought to be under a doctor’s care as well.
Silibinin(a derivative of milk thistle) given intravenously is one of the more effective treatments for amanita poisoning. Other treatments are NAC, even intravenous penicillin...
Most important ..get thine “ass” to a doctor ASAP. At present the IV form of silibinin is available from FDA on a case by case emergency basis. (May have been approved ). It is available in certain European countries. The doctor has to get supplies from FDA approved suppliers.
Probably OK to use milk thistle products before silibinin treatment, but if not treated adequately liver failure could ensue...bottom line ..difficult to identify amanita mushrooms for many folks...why the H would anyone mess around? Reward for “self harvested” wild mushrooms hardly worth it. But then again people eat deer antler”velvet” cause they think it will give the eater great energy. Did see a case of someone getting fatal case of botulism from antler velvet. “Hold my beer” are famous last words.
Are they democrats?
Chanterelles? Morels?
Amanita..................
They probably got the amanita confused with the paddy straw mushroom.
Paddy Straw or Amanita Princeps could be confused with Death Cap or Destroying Angel.
See also Amanita Phalloides, could look like Paddy Straw.
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_phalloides.html
Yeah...that could be a problem. I don’t know if there’s been a recent influx of H’mong or Laotian immigrants into Cali. I would think that established vommunities would have this information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_princeps
“Government publications where there’s only two additional language will be Spanish, and either Chinese, Tagolog, or Vietnamese”
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I learned recently that [Phillipines] Tagalog is pronounced ta-GAH-log.
Please return now to the subject matter...
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If you ever see one of these be sure to give it a good sniff!
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/stinkhorns/
Ah, Giorgio mushrooms. You can smell their farms from the next town over.
Scary. Tough way to learn.
Were any casualties by a broken neck,for NOT eating the poison mushrooms?
Thinning the herd ...
No chance !
No doubt, get to a doctor ASAP. It’s a painful horrible way to die.
I didn’t know that they had made an IV form. Read about France successfully using extracts of Silybum marianum many years ago. Probably 30 years ago (sheesh) so not surprising it has been improved since then.
There are a lot of wild edible shrooms that are easy to identify if a person takes the trouble to learn about them. Bolete mushrooms are probably the easiest. They have tubes under their caps as opposed to gills and no other mushrooms do.
The rule has to be absolute certainty though. Not a scintilla of doubt.
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