On June 22.6, Dr. CK2 Nguyen Van Loc, Head of Intensive Care and Poison Control Department, Children's Hospital 2, said that after 10 days of treatment, liver, kidney function and consciousness of patient T. (12 years old) , living in Dong Nai, was poisoned by eating mushrooms grown from cicada carcasses) made good progress and was discharged home in the joy of his family.
Before that, T. was admitted to the hospital in a coma, grade 3 hepatic encephalopathy, his liver enzymes were approximately 16.000 U/L (normally about 40 U/L). She was on mechanical ventilation, continuous dialysis, plasma exchange, drug transfusions to support the liver, anti-brain edema. Up to now, she has been weaned off the ventilator, stopped dialysis, her consciousness has improved, and her liver enzymes have decreased to approximately 100 U/L.
Mushrooms from cicada carcasses caused T. to be poisoned with Gyrommitrin
SUPPLIED PATIENT FAMILY
Information from family members, around 17pm on June 6.6, T. brought mushrooms growing from cicada carcasses behind the field to process into food, and also ate with her mother. About 2 hours later, at a Children's Hospital, family members discovered that both mother and child had intermittent abdominal pain, dizziness, vomiting of old food and were taken to a local hospital. The patient was transferred to a coma with liver and kidney damage.
Another case related to mushroom poisoning is a 10-year-old male patient who was transferred from Tay Ninh hospital to Children's Hospital 2, also showing signs of improvement.
At the same time, Children's Hospital 2 is also treating another case of mushroom poisoning, a 22-month-old girl, who was also transferred to Tay Ninh Hospital with a similar condition and is being actively monitored. Information from the families of these children shared that the mushrooms they ate were popular locally, collected and used by people here to make porridge, stir-fried with melon, etc.
After receiving incidents of mushroom poisoning, Dr. Loc advised parents to be cautious when using it. Only familiar mushrooms should be consumed to ensure the safety of children and families.
