FAMILY CRITICALLY ILL AFTER EATING WILD MUSHROOMS.Byline: Richard Cole
Richard Cole (born January 2, 1946) was heavily involved in the rock music business from the mid-1960s to 2003, and is most famous for being the tour manager of English rock band Led Zeppelin from Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A woman and her three children were in dire condition Wednesday and could need liver transplants after picking wild "death cap" mushrooms and eating them in spaghetti sauce. The most seriously ill among them - a 13-year-old girl - was in critical condition and was put on an emergency transplant waiting list. "This situation is urgent," said Dr. Jack Lake, head of the organ transplant program at the University of California, San Francisco . He said it's too soon to tell whether the girl's mother and two brothers, 11 and 14, will also need transplants. The hospital refused to identify the family. Rose Ann Soloway of the American Association of Poison Control Centers poison control center Toxicology A nonprofit facility, often affiliated with a university or hospital, that provides emergency toxicology assessments by telephone, and treatment recommendations, primarily to parents of children who swallowed a household product, in Washington said the case underlines the danger of amateur mushroom hunting. The association receives 40 to 50 reports a year of mushroom poisonings, including two deaths since 1993. "We recommend that people not forage for wild mushrooms unless they in fact are experts, or the person identifying the mushrooms is someone with whom they would trust their life," Soloway said. "And keep some uncooked specimens for identification purposes when you get sick." The family immigrated from Taiwan, and Asians are disproportionately victims of such poisonings, especially in California. Several years ago, a dozen Laotians were poisoned in a similar incident. "They must eat a similar mushroom in their country, but we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what it is that they think they are eating," said toxicologist William Freedman. The death cap can take up to three days for the effects of liver damage, including yellowing eyes, to become evident, said Dr. Meredith Blackwell, a fungi expert at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. . "The problem is you usually don't realize you've been seriously poisoned until it's too late," she said. |
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