Mushroom poisonings are arriving far earlier this year at Cleveland hospitals
knows the routine all too well. Every year he treats a handful of patients who wind up dead or fighting for their lives after eating the wrong type of mushrooms.
This year, however, the mushroom poisonings arrived a full two months early. Gholam says he saw his first case on Aug. 8, something so unprecedented he at first thought the poisoning must have been due to something else. in 2017. So far in 2023, he’s seen seven patients, and Ohio is still more than a month away from the historical start of the amanita mushroom season.close to double the normal amounts“I think when you have a very humid, very rainy season this typically happens. I’ve just never seen it happen so early,” Gholam said. “So I think we are headed, for all the wrong reasons, a banner year when it comes to this.
In common parlance, these mushrooms are referred to as destroying angels or death cap mushrooms. They can be green, brown, or brilliant white, and they frequently look nearly identical to edible varieties common in Asia or Eastern Europe. According to those who have eaten them and lived to tell about it, they also taste delicious.
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