Descriptive Epidemiology of Mushroom Poisoning in Nagano Prefecture

Mushroom Poisoning

From Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address for reprints: Dr. Tzong-Luen Wang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, No 95, Wen Chang Road, Taipei, Taiwan Received: Sep 5 2004. Revised: Sep 25 2004. Accepted: Oct 5 2004. TEL: 886-2-28389425 FAX: 886-2-28353547 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Wild mu...

Mushroom poisoning in dogs

M ushroom poisoning of companion animals, particularly dogs, is a potentially underestimated problem in North America. Because of their wandering and scavenging nature, dogs seem particularly prone to mushroom poisoning.1-8 While there have been sporadic reports of mushroom poisoning in dogs in the veterinary literature,1-8 anecdotal experience in the Pacific Northwest suggests it is more preva...

Epidemiology of Tramadol Poisoning in Qaemshahr, Iran

  Background and purpose: Tramadol poisoning is a serious medical emergency and one of the most common causes of drug poisoning. The present study aims to determine the epidemiological features of patients who were served by Qaemshahr pre-hospital emergency care due to tramadol toxicity in 2016. Materials and methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, medical records of patients with...

Mushroom Poisoning in India

Toxicologists in India do not appear to have been struck so far by mushroom poisoning. For many years the solitary case described was that of a Collector who, half a century ago, laughed in an indignified manner in his Court after consuming mushrooms at breakfast (Chevers, quoted by Modi, 1949). Dried mushrooms from Kashmir are consumed as delicacies in the Punjab as khumb, guchclii or dhingri ...

A Case of Mushroom Poisoning