[cajungirl]

People with cyanide poisoning smell like almonds,,their breath does. So ER docs when suspecting cyanide always smell the victims. I wonder what they ate,,keep thinking of some home picked mushrooms.

[John H K]

keep thinking of some home picked mushrooms.

An EXCELLENT theory; wish I'd thought of it.

It happens a LOT, particularly with recent immigrants....they're unfamiliar with North American mushrooms, and some of our incredibly poisonous ones look exactly like edible ones from Europe or other countries.