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 motaman
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 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family
#6083944 - 09/20/06 08:10 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr...jd2cWVlRUV5eTU=
'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
By WILLIAM LAMB
STAFF WRITER
Four members of an Emerson family should consider themselves "extremely lucky" to be alive after eating wild mushrooms plucked from their front yard last week, a state poisoning expert said Tuesday.
One member of the family remained hospitalized in good condition at Pascack Valley Hospital on Tuesday, five days after the family picked the mushrooms during a party and served them with that night's dinner. Two others were released from the hospital Tuesday, a Pascack Valley spokesman said.
The family went to the emergency room Friday, about 17 hours after eating the mushrooms, complaining of nausea and diarrhea, said Dr. Steven Marcus, executive director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System. Marcus said two men and two women were sickened after eating the mushrooms, but he declined to disclose the names or ages of the victims.
The mushroom they ate is called Amanita virosa, also known as the "death cap," Marcus said.
It is a large, white mushroom with cream-colored gills that grows throughout North America. It often is mistaken, sometimes with deadly consequences, for harmless mushrooms that grow overseas, Marcus said.
Ingestion of an Amanita mushroom triggers severe nausea, often followed by liver and kidney failure, Marcus said. Thirty percent to 40 percent of such poisoning cases are fatal, he said.
"These are very deadly mushrooms," Marcus said. "The family of four was extremely lucky."
Marcus said health officials had been trying to contact a man, thought to be a relative of the Emerson family, who is visiting the United States from China. The man attended the party last Thursday and left the area Friday, taking a bus to Georgia. Hospitals and poison-control centers in that state have been told to be on the lookout for anyone with poisoning symptoms, Marcus said.
The Pascack Valley spokesman, John Corcoran, said it is "very likely" that the remaining victim will be released from the hospital today.
None of the people developed liver or kidney failure, Marcus said, but the good news doesn't mean the family is out of danger. The symptoms could reappear, he said, in which case the family has been instructed to report to an emergency room.
A safe rule of thumb, Marcus said, is to never eat any mushroom that doesn't come from a supermarket shelf.
"I don't like to be glib, but if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it," he said. "That's true of a lot of things, but with something like mushrooms it could end up costing you your life."
The episode reminded Marcus of an old saying:
"There are old mushroom pickers and there are bold mushroom pickers," he said. "But there are no old, bold mushroom pickers."
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downlowfunk
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 Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: motaman]
#6087011 - 09/21/06 03:07 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Big mommy and daddy supermarket can protect you. I I been eating bagged spinach all week and im fine. Been eating A.Pantherina all summer, and feel great!!!
Edited by downlowfunk (09/21/06 03:08 PM)
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: downlowfunk]
#6087198 - 09/21/06 03:50 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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deaht cap and pantherina are 2 way differnt things man if you really have so much faith in you spinach eat a death cap see how that goes. BTW becarful with Pantherina i had 2oz of that in 1 1/2 months and it lasted 3 months full blown halucinations mixed with reality also one time the sky was the road and the road was the sky
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: thedudenj]
#6087273 - 09/21/06 04:12 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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not the point I was going for. just being a dick and saying that I aint letting the big mommy and daddy government make decisions for me regarding whats available at the super market.
Yes I would never eat a destroying angel or a Phalloides, or any other Mushroom I could not identify. course I cant identify ecoli exposed spinache, but I have been eating the bag since last week before they did the big spinache raid.
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: thedudenj]
#6087293 - 09/21/06 04:17 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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thedudenj said:
BTW becarful with Pantherina i had 2oz of that in 1 1/2 months and it lasted 3 months full blown halucinations mixed with reality also one time the sky was the road and the road was the sky
Wow, thats incredible. I tell ya last week when I was looking thru my tupper ware full of dried Panther, I expierienced immence energy all day, and I didnt eat one piece. After what you said it all makes since, No wonder they say that stuff is so potent.
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: downlowfunk]
#6088511 - 09/21/06 09:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Where do you find these panthers? Whats the psilocybin content compared to cubes and pans?
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: junior2521]
#6090147 - 09/22/06 12:40 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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they dont have psilocybin. and yes they are that potent and junior i dont suggest messing with them its a completly differnt thing
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: thedudenj]
#6090365 - 09/22/06 02:02 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah ive been eating very small amounts, here, and having interesting results. Started out with a small dried cap and stem the next week I did like 3 or 4 small dried caps def under a gram, the next time just one dried medium cap. I have had interesting expieriences.
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: downlowfunk]
#6102077 - 09/26/06 07:43 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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heh this story reminds me of the saying "every mushroom is edibile, once."
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: motaman]
#6102117 - 09/26/06 07:58 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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motaman said:
The mushroom they ate is called Amanita virosa, also known as the "death cap," Marcus said.
Lol... I found this sentence to be slightly humorous... just not a common connection of ideas... you think you would NOT pick a well known deadly lawn shroom... didn't those parents have parents when they were a kid who told them lawn mushrooms were evil even if your little garden gnome is waving at them? No one died though right? goood... 
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Re: 'Death cap' mushrooms sicken family [Re: coda]
#6102125 - 09/26/06 08:01 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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This story was all over the news the other night. I was going to post it but forgot.... Then when I saw it I thought to myself, wow two different sets of people being foolish....
Then I realized they were the same article.
I just don't see how anyone could just unknowingly pick a mushroom and not only eat it, serve it?
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