Citation

Shotar AM, Alzyoud SA, Samara O, Obeidat J, Qasaimeh GR. Pak. J. Biol. Sci. 2012; 15(4): 208-211.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Forensic Science, School of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), P.O. Box: 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Asian Network for Scientific Information)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22816180

Abstract

An eight years male child with his family ate fresh mushrooms at lunch time from back garden at their home in a village in the North of Jordan. By the evening approximately six hours later all started feeling nausea, abdominal cramps and vomiting they were rushed to nearest primary health care center. After getting general medical medication they were sent to a referral hospital at city of Irbid. The boy deteriorated with diarrhea in addition to the previous gastrointestinal complains and died on third day. The message from this case is to ascertain in the public opinion that unknown type of mushrooms, even if eaten previously, could be poisonous and fatal.

Language: en