According to information from the patient's family, around 17 pm on June 6.6, patient T. brought mushrooms growing from the cicada carcasses behind the fields to process them into food and eat with her mother (T. ate 5 pieces, T.'s mother ate 2 pieces). About 1 hour later, both mother and child, patient T. suffered from intermittent abdominal pain, dizziness, vomiting of old food and were taken to a local hospital.
The patient was poisoned by eating mushrooms growing on cicada carcasses
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After two days of treatment at a lower-level hospital, patient T. was transferred to Children's Hospital 2 in a coma, severe arrhythmia and liver and kidney damage.
The patient is being actively treated, his health is gradually improving, he is breathing oxygen, receiving fluids and is closely monitored by the doctor.
BS.CK2 Vu Hiep Phat, Head of Emergency Department, Children's Hospital 2 said that the patient was poisoned with the poisonous mushroom Gyrommitrin.
According to Dr. Phat, in the past time, there have been cases of gyrommitrin poisoning because of eating parasitic fungi on cicadas, so people need to be careful. Because this is the time when cicada activity combines with heavy rains, it is a condition for the poisonous fungus Gyrommitrin parasitic on the ticks to sprout and develop. Many people mistakenly think with common mushrooms or "cordyceps", so they should be processed into food, leading to serious consequences, even death.
"Gyrommitrin poisoning currently has no specific treatment, parents need to avoid using strange-shaped mushrooms that are not common on the market to ensure safety and avoid recurrence of similar incidents," said Dr. Phat.
