The province has just recorded two cases of a mother and child, residing in Xuan Tho commune (Xuan Loc district) being poisoned after eating mushrooms grown from cicada corpses.
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| MSc. Dr. Pham Thi Kieu Trang (Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poisoning, Dong Nai Children's Hospital) examines a patient with dangerous mushroom poisoning. Photo: H. Dung |
Doctors warn that people should absolutely not eat mushrooms of unknown origin; because eating some poisonous mushrooms can lead to multiple organ failure and death.
* There is no antidote.
MSc. Pham Thi Kieu Trang, Head of the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department of Dong Nai Children's Hospital, said that at 0:00 on June 7, the hospital received a 12-year-old male patient, PHT, in a state of agitation, answering word by word when asked, with eye twitching and muscle twitching.
According to the patient’s family, on the afternoon of June 6, the child and his mother ate mushrooms grown from cicada pupae. At 7 p.m. the same day, the child had symptoms of abdominal pain, vomiting, convulsions, and rolling eyes. He was taken to the emergency room at Long Khanh Regional General Hospital in a lethargic state with nystagmus.
Here, doctors washed the patient's stomach, administered IV fluids, and then transferred him to Dong Nai Children's Hospital for continued treatment.
The child was diagnosed with parasitic mushroom poisoning on cicada pupae and was given intravenous fluids to help eliminate toxins from the body. Because there is no antidote for cicada mushroom poisoning, doctors focused on treating the child's symptoms.
By the afternoon of June 7, the patient was still lethargic, unable to communicate, had muscle and eye twitching, and had to be fed through a feeding tube.
Meanwhile, the patient's mother also ate the same type of mushroom but ate less so her condition was not as severe as her son's. After being treated at Long Khanh Regional General Hospital, Ms. N. (T.'s mother) was transferred to Thong Nhat General Hospital for further treatment.
Dr. Lam Hung Hanh, Head of the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department at Thong Nhat General Hospital, said that Ms. N's health has improved, she is alert and can eat porridge.
* Many people mistake it for Cordyceps
In recent days, some localities in the country such as Binh Thuan, Ba Ria - Vung Tau , Dak Lak, Lam Dong ... have continuously recorded cases of poisoning from mushrooms growing from cicada corpses. Among them, some cases are in critical condition.
According to Master-Doctor Pham Thi Kieu Trang, about 5 years ago, also during the rainy season, the Intensive Care Unit received a number of similar mushroom poisoning cases. These patients were later recorded to have neurological damage. After a few years, this mushroom poisoning case has continued to be recorded.
Dr. Trang added that the eggs of cicadas laid in the soil will develop into larvae (cicada pupae) after a period of time. Cicada pupae can lie next to fungal spores, be attacked by the fungus and live parasitically. The fungus will replace the host's tissues, suck nutrients, causing the host to die and develop outside the host's body.
Many people, due to limited knowledge, saw mushrooms growing on cicada corpses thinking that they were cordyceps (a nutritious food) so they took them to eat, leading to unfortunate poisoning.
Doctors recommend that people should not eat cicada nymphs or strange mushrooms of unknown origin. If you want to use cordyceps to improve your health, you need to buy them from places with clear origins. Absolutely do not use insects or worms as food or medicine to avoid the risk of poisoning, which can lead to death.
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