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- Title
Acute Intoxications from Consumption of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms -- Minnesota, 2018.
- Authors
Taylor, Joanne; Holzbauer, Stacy; Wanduragala, Danushka; Ivaskovic, Alexander; Spinosa, Ron; Smith, Kirk; Corcoran, Justin; Jensen, Ashley
- Abstract
The article focuses on a middle-aged ethnic man who was evaluated at a hospital emergency department with altered mental status, vomiting, diarrhea, incontinence, sweating, and swelling of the lip and tongue after eating mushrooms at home. It mentions that the patient was admitted for supportive treatment and discharged 8 days after admission; and also mentions a muscaria mushrooms can contain ibotenic acid and muscimol, which are structurally similar to glutamate and gamma-Aminobutyric acid.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; MUSHROOMS; MUSHROOM poisoning; AMANITA muscaria
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2019, Vol 68, Issue 21, p483
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15585/mmwr.mm6821a4