Citation

Lee CL, Chung TL, Chiang CH, Lee WK, Liu MC. Zhonghua Min Guo Xiao Er Ke Yi Xue Hui Za Zhi 1996; 37(2): 133-134.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Municipal Min Sheng Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Pediatric Association of the Republic of China)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8935413

Abstract

There were very few cases of mushroom poisoning every year in Taiwan and yet no fatal incident have been reported. A species named Amanita phalloides had high lethality rate (22-33%). Physicians should be aware of it's toxic property and be able to treat the patient in case of mushroom poisoning. However, mycologist sometimes might not distinguish edible from toxic mushroom so that educating people not to ingest wild mushroom is very important. We present 4 children with gastrointestinal syndrome after ingesting wild mushroom. We also introduce some basic approaches in treating mushroom poisoning in this paper.

Language: en