Mushroom poisoning: Case series

A Case of Mushroom Poisoning

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...

Bupropion poisoning: a case series.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the toxicity of bupropion hydrochloride in deliberate self-poisoning in adults and accidental ingestion by children. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective study of cases identified from calls to the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (NSW PIC), with follow-up through hospital medical records. PARTICIPANTS Patients with bupropion poisoning managed in hospital, about...

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...

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 ...