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Poisonous mushrooms send seven to hospital
    #6069251 - 09/16/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/15521411.htm

Seven people, all Hmong, were hospitalized this week after eating poisonous mushrooms they picked at Keller-Phalen Regional Park in St. Paul, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

While four have been treated, and released, three remain hospitalized. Two are in intensive care. At least two of the seven are children, ages 10 and 5, whose illnesses are severe enough that they have been transferred from St. John's Hospital in Maplewood to two other hospitals.

Warnings were sent throughout the community in English and a Hmong translation.

Mushrooms are dietary staples for Hmong people living in the Laotian highlands, said Michael Yang, who works with Hmong people who farm oyster mushrooms in central California.

The Hmong may not be as familiar with the mushroom varieties in the United States compared with those they routinely picked in Laos, said Yang, who works with the University of California's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

"It's two totally different environments," he said. "If you go out and you see a mushroom, do not pick it and eat it unless you are absolutely sure."

Mushroom poisoning is unusual but happens occasionally in the late summer, said Dr. John Kvasnicka, medical director for HealthEast's three emergency departments, including St. John's. Most varieties are safe, but a few are so poisonous that they can cause severe illness or death.

"I think you really have to be an expert — really, truly an expert — to be able to make that distinction," he said. "There are toxic kinds that can look very similar to nontoxic kinds."

Cooking toxic mushrooms does not make them safe, he added.

The mushrooms were picked Saturday and consumed in two separate meals later that night, according to the health department. The mushrooms are known as Amanita bisporigera — also called the Eastern American Destroying Angel. Even with treatment, the fatality rate for Amanita poisoning can reach 20 percent to 30 percent, the health department stated.

Common symptoms, which can occur within 24 hours of consuming poisonous mushrooms, include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Symptoms can decline, but liver and kidney damage can occur three to five days after consumption.

Due to the complex nature of their illnesses, the two children were taken from St. John's to Children's Hospital and then were reportedly transferred to the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview. A Fairview spokesman could not confirm that any patients related to the mushroom poisoning were in the hospital.

The health department urges anyone who may have consumed poisonous mushrooms to see a doctor immediately

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