Mushrooms

hospital: According to the study, the patient, an unnamed immigrant, first arrived in hospital after eating mushrooms she had foraged with her husband in a local park, according to CTV. Her husband had previous foraging experience from living in another country, and mistakenly identified a Canadian mushroom as safe when it was actually poisonous. In a case study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, doctors detail the woman experience. About 12 hours after eating the mushrooms, the 52-year-old arrived in hospital with acute abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Luckily, the patient received a healthy liver from a deceased donor and recovered from the incident. Doctors identified the mushroom she’d eaten as poisonous, and 36 hours after consuming the plant, the woman was transferred to an intensive care unit and placed on an on-call list for an urgent liver transplant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.