Type and treatment of toxic mushroom poisoning in Korea
Journal of the Korean Medical Association
;
: 818-824, 2015.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-88244
ABSTRACT
To eat unidentified or misidentified mushrooms taken from the wild can be very dangerous. In the vast majority of toxic mushroom ingestions in Korea, the mushroom was incorrectly identified. In general, poisoning of toxic mushrooms can be classified into seven types according to the toxins that they contain; amatoxin, gyromitrin, coprine, muscarine, ibotenic acid-muscimol, psilocybin-psilocin and gastrointestinal irritants. When clinicians care for a patient who ingested a toxic mushroom, it is very important to identify what kind of mushroom may have caused a patient's illness. But, in clinical practice, accurate botanical identification of the mushroom can be very difficult. Therefore, for estimating the caused mushroom and adequate treatment of poisoning, clinicians should know the type and treatment of toxic mushroom poisoning.
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Main subject:
Poisoning
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Mushroom Poisoning
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Edetic Acid
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Agaricales
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Irritants
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Korea
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Muscarine
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Medical Association
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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