Mushrooms and poisoning.
The mushrooms are probably one of the oldest consumption of mankind having mythological and spiritual significance apart from being a great delicacy. Its poisoning is a common yet poorly recognised. There are more than 2000 varieties which are edible, and nearly 80 varieties are non-edible (or poisonous) type. Not only they resemble some of the edible types, they even grow long with them. Most of the toxic events go unnoticed, yet, sometimes it may be life threatening as some mushrooms are one of the most toxic fungi known to manking. Awareness is pobably the only prevention.
Department of Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun 248140.
Amit
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Varma
K J B S
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Gaur
Payal
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Bhatia
D000363:Agaricales; D006801:Humans; D009145:Mushroom Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*