Cho Ray Hospital doctors are actively treating and caring for patients.
According to the patient's information, on June 4, the husband, CHH patient (born in 1980), went into the forest to pick mushrooms and stir-fry them with squash for his wife and 17-year-old daughter to eat. The husband ate the most, about half of the mushrooms and squash, while the wife and daughter ate the rest. About 8-12 hours after eating, all three people showed signs of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea many times, which became increasingly worse. At about 2:00 a.m. the next morning, the three people were taken to the local hospital and then transferred to Cho Ray Hospital.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Ngan, Deputy Head of the Tropical Diseases Department, said that on June 6, Cho Ray Hospital received 3 cases of mushroom poisoning in a family. The husband had difficulty breathing and respiratory failure. He was intubated and given a balloon but died in the Emergency Department due to severe poisoning. The wife and daughter were transferred to the Tropical Diseases Department in a state of acute liver failure, very high liver enzymes, and blood clotting disorders.
“We suspect the symptoms are due to poisoning after eating mushrooms. We have not yet determined what mushroom or toxin the patients were poisoned with because we need more time to collect information from the family. After 2 days of treatment, the 17-year-old son has improved slightly but still needs to monitor his liver function and blood clotting disorders. The wife is still in critical condition, her liver dysfunction is still getting worse, we have implemented resuscitation measures such as blood filtration, liver support treatment, it can be said that the prognosis is very cautious,” said Dr. Ngan.
Dr. Thuy Ngan added that, according to information from the patient, this was the second time the family had eaten this type of mushroom. Since the first time they ate it, there was no problem, so the family continued to use it this year. Through this case, Dr. Thuy Ngan recommends that people should be careful when using wild mushrooms when they do not fully understand them. There have been many cases of people mistakenly eating poisonous mushrooms and being poisoned by them. In particular, the rainy season is the time when many types of mushrooms grow the most. In addition, wild mushrooms, although not poisonous, can still be contaminated with toxins from other wild mushrooms or animals that secrete poisonous substances, and the toxins stick to the mushrooms. Therefore, people need to be careful when using mushrooms picked from the forest to avoid poisoning.
Usually, cases of mushroom poisoning will progress very quickly and can be life-threatening. Therefore, if people have symptoms of suspected mushroom poisoning, they need to go to medical facilities immediately for timely examination and treatment.
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