Daily News | CHOP poison control center warns of spike in severe mushroom poisonings, one requiring organ transplant
Nevin Martell / The Washington PostA subculture of foragers is scouring a growing host of social media groups, hashtags and phone apps to find and identify mushrooms not only to eat, but for a psychedelic experience.at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which handles calls from half of Pennsylvania and all of Delaware.
The center reports that seven cases required hospitalizations over that period, including three patients who were admitted to intensive care. One needed a liver transplant.Bassett cites possible reasons for a sudden spike in severe poisonings: It is “not rare” to see people poisoned who were in search of the hallucinatory properties of some mushrooms, Bassett said. Some have been hospitalized for psychotic episodes and organ failure.that younger people were searching for mushrooms in the genus, which can be poisonous but also includes species that deliver psychedelic effects.
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