Mushroom Poisoning

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Mushroom Poisoning
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Which one is edible?
Death Cap
Coccora
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Chanterelles
Jack-o-lanterns
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Jack-o-lantern
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How to get sick from mushrooms

• Eat rotten mushrooms.

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Black Trumpets
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How to get sick from mushrooms

• Eat rotten mushrooms.
• Eat mushrooms sprayed with pesticides.
• Eat mushrooms you are allergic to.
• Eat safe mushrooms but have a panic reaction.
• Eat poisonous mushrooms.

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Amatoxin
Death cap
Destroying Angel
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Amatoxin

• After 5 12hrs of eating the mushroom
• Stomach ache, vomit, diarrhea.
• After 24 hours
• Honeymoon period
• Liver/kidney damage, coma, death (3-7d).

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Gyromitrin
False Morels
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Gyromitrin

• Rocket fuel
• Destroys red blood cells.
• 6 12 hrs after eating
• Headache, vomit, diarrhea, weak.
• Some cases, coma, death.

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Muscarine
Fly Agaric
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Muscarine

• 15 30 minutes after eating
• S
• L
• U
• D
• G
• E

alivation (drool)
acrimation (cry)
rination (pee)
iarrhea
astric upset (stomach ache)
mesis (vomit)
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Psychoactive

• 1 2 hours after eating
• Dizzy, sleepy.
• Laterhyperactive, excited, Invincible.

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Historical uses

• Vikings

• Koryak tribe in Siberia

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Local Mushroom Hunting Gone Wrong.
Shaggy Mane
Destroying Angel
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Coprine
Tipplers bane / Alcohol Inky
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Which one is edible?
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Latex

• Lactarius spp.

Candy Caps
Lactarius xanthogalactus