Wild Mushrooms and Edible Species

edible species: Doctors are warning people who forage for wild mushrooms to educate themselves about edible species after a woman who ingested a highly poisonous variety needed a life-saving liver transplant, according to Brandon Sun. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Reprinted from Canadian Medical Association Journal TORONTO - Doctors are warning people who forage for wild mushrooms to educate themselves about edible species after a woman who ingested a highly poisonous variety needed a life-saving liver transplant. Inset shows the two-spored basidium, which is characteristic of the species. In a case report published in Monday edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, doctors say the 52-year-old immigrant of Asian descent visited a Toronto hospital emergency department last summer after developing severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting overnight. Corey Stein, an internal medicine resident who helped treat the woman at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The evening before, the woman had eaten a variety of wild mushroom found in a local park with her husband, who had foraging experience in his native country. "Presumably they thought that it was an edible mushroom," said co-author Dr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.