Wild mushrooms for culinary and psychedelic experiences have been having a moment in recent years. But “it’s ridiculously easy to mistake a poisonous mushroom for an edible one,” doctors warn.
It looked very similar to the mushrooms the mother and son had been able to safely forage in Malaysia, where they are originally from. Experts warn that the danger of lookalikes is always present for mushroom hunters.
“It’s ridiculously easy to mistake a poisonous mushroom for an edible one,” Dr. Robert Bassett, associate medical director of the Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, tells TODAY.com.03:52 “This is an uptick, and this does feel more severe in terms of the consequences than we’ve had in recent memory.”
Cases associated with foraging and other reasons, labeled by the organization as mushroom “misuse,” have also gone up during that time period, but not as dramatically — 714 in 2019 compared to 814 so far this year.
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