On June 12, a representative of Cho Ray Hospital said that when they were admitted to the hospital last week, this person and his 17-year-old daughter were in a state of acute liver failure, with very high liver enzymes and blood clotting disorders. Doctors suspect that these symptoms were due to poisoning after eating mushrooms, but it is not clear what type of mushroom they were poisoned by or what the toxin was.
The woman's condition became worse and worse, the doctor predicted that she would not survive, so her family asked to take her home and she died at home. The son's health improved, and he also asked to be discharged from the hospital, following his wish to go home and see his mother one last time.
This is the second person to die in the case of a family in Tay Ninh being poisoned after eating mushrooms.
Previously, a family of three, including a husband, wife, and 17-year-old daughter, picked mushrooms and stir-fried them with squash to eat. About 8-12 hours later, they had stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea that became increasingly severe. They were taken to a local hospital for emergency treatment and transferred to Cho Ray Hospital. During the transfer, the husband had difficulty breathing and respiratory failure. He was intubated and had to be given a balloon pump and died in the Emergency Department.
Their family has a habit of picking mushrooms when the rainy season comes, and has eaten mushrooms many times but has never been poisoned.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Ngan, Deputy Head of the Department of Tropical Diseases, Cho Ray Hospital, examines a patient with suspected poisoning due to eating mushrooms. Photo: Provided by the hospital
The rainy season is the time when mushrooms grow a lot, many people eat them, so poisoning often occurs. Doctors recommend that because it is impossible to distinguish between healthy and poisonous mushrooms based only on shape and color, people should absolutely not pick wild mushrooms to eat.
The world currently records more than 5,000 types of mushrooms, of which about 100 are poisonous - difficult to distinguish. The process of emergency and treatment of mushroom poisoning is very expensive, the mortality rate is very high (over 50%). Medical history shows many cases of whole families dying after eating poisonous mushrooms.
Signs of poisoning appear late after eating from 6 to 40 hours, usually 12-18 hours. Symptoms are nausea, vomiting, continuous diarrhea like cholera, lasting 1-2 days, causing dehydration and electrolyte disturbances, circulatory collapse, little or no urine. Severe cases cause hepatitis, fatigue, deep coma, bleeding in many places (under the skin, mucous membranes, blood in urine), multiple organ failure and death.
People should only eat cultivated mushrooms, knowing for sure the species and origin. In case of accidentally eating a suspected poisonous mushroom, they should go to the nearest medical facility for timely treatment.
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