A charity in Australia has repeated a warning for picking and eating wild mushrooms.
The annual message of the Food Safety Information Council comes when mushrooms begin to appear in Australia, because it is autumn in the southern hemisphere.
Lydia Buchtmann, CEO of Food Safety Information Council, said that foraging for food is becoming popular, especially through promotion on social media, but collecting wild mushrooms can be dangerous.
“Last May, a 98-year-old Victorian woman died after eating dead caps that had been picked from her own garden. Her son also ate the mushrooms but recovered. The poison in one deadly Pet mushroom, when it is eaten, is sufficient to kill a healthy adult in the Austic in the Australian capital in the Australian capital in the Australian capital in the Australian Capital in the Austral city in the Australian city in the Australian city in the Australian Capital in the Australian Capital in the Australian Stadicstad, also In the Australian capital admitted to the hospital after consuming a killed chapter stream, “she said.
“Do not take the risk of foraging other wild foods, because mushrooms do not pose the only risk. Collecting wild food is also a risk of food -carried diseases due to contamination with animal droppings and parasites.”
Coroner at Fatal case
In May 2024, Loreta Maria del Rossi died seven days after consuming a meal made with mushrooms that were felt from her own garden.
Victorian Staatscoroner, John Cain, discovered that Del Rossi died of failure of multiple organ Due to poisoning by amatoxins – the toxin found in the deadlapers.
Del Rossi, who lived with her son, grew her own vegetables and regularly collected wild edible grasses such as dandelion and milk thistle. In April she found wild mushrooms in the front garden and told her son that she would collect, clean and test them. They then consumed the mushrooms and experienced no negative effects.
In May, Del Rossi found more mushrooms to grow in the same piece of garden and prepared them again for dinner. That night Del Rossi and her son became sick and they were taken to the hospital for treatment. While the son of Del Rossi survived, her condition deteriorated and went into palliative care.
Cain praised the Ministry of Health for publishing health advice on the consumption of wild mushrooms, but said that extra public consciousness is needed. He ordered the Department of Health and Victorian Poisons Information Center design and to carry an annual advertising campaign in the fall, to warn Victorians of the dangers of wild mushrooms.
Wild mushroom advice
Tire caps can appear at any time of the year, but come more often for a week or two after heavy rainfall. They were found in the Canberra, Melbourne, Tasmania and Adelaide region. They are not native to Australia and often grow near oak trees in warm wet weather.
People who were born abroad, especially in Asian or European countries, must be aware that the mushrooms can look like edible mushrooms they have collected in their country of birth.
The toxin in the killer chards is not destroyed by peeling, cooking or drying. Symptoms of poisoning are vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps and usually appear 10 to 16 hours after eating. These symptoms can illuminate two to three days before a terminal phase starts from three to four days. Without effective medical intervention, people can go into a coma and die after two to three weeks of liver and kidney failure.
If the consumption of a mushroom of a killer is suspected, do not wait until the symptoms occur, but go to an emergency department of the hospital and take the mushroom if possible. Australia also has a Poisons Information Center.
There are other wild mushrooms in Australia who have caused fatalities or who can make people sick with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. They include the Cortinarius (webcap) and Galerina species, and the ghost -pad chair, which is usually mistaken for oyster paths. The yellow -eyed one that looks like a field toad chair is the most eager toxic mushroom in Victoria and New South Wales.
Many casual expansions to poisonous mushrooms are younger than 5 years old in children. Pets can also be influenced. Apps and Google search assignments may not be trusted to identify mushrooms.
From July to October 2024, 32 serious cases of mushroom poisoning were reported to poison control centers in France from the 1,179 reported cases. In 2023, TOX info Suisse, the Swiss Poisons Information Center, reported 98 documented mushroom poisoning.
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