Hepatotoxicity
I was rereading the wikipedia parts of the article on Hepatotoxicity above and was reading the section on Amanita and
Examples include many amanita mushrooms (particularly the destroying angels), and aflatoxins.[citation needed]
last line quoted from "natural" causes of hepatotoxicity.
It might be important for readers to understand and to pass on this information regarding alcohol poisoning (death by hepatotoxicity)
and death by Amanita (especially by the destroying angels). Often times these two mushrooms are mistaken for edible mushrooms
and are always fatal if even one half a cap is eaten if there isn't immediate treatment.
I have always been very wary of picking wild mushrooms in the forests for this reason. I have always been worried about
accidentally picking non-edible mushrooms. When I was in college we visited a friend's home in the San Francisco Bay area
friend who had traveled up to there with me in my car insisted we eat wild mushrooms growing in the grass in his front yard as
he said they were wonderful and edible. So, we ate a whole bunch of them being young and stupid. It turned out he was right
that they made a really good meal. But, generally unless you are with someone who has eaten and picked edible mushrooms for
years without dying, you really don't want to go around picking mushrooms and eating them because just one mistake (one cap)
you are dead with your liver irreparably poisoned within 24 to 36 hours usually.
So, I never to this day go pick mushrooms like morels or other mushrooms unless I'm with someone who has done it for years
and lived to tell the tale as a precaution.
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