Comments on: Mushrooms without fear: 9 steps to avoid poisoning yourself

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:34:43 +0000

This is a joke, isn’t it? In the “Nine steps to safe mushroom picking”, all the steps boil down to the same message, which is simply: learn how to identify mushrooms! This tells us nothing at all!

By: Prof M.Browne

Prof M.Browne — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:27:50 +0000

I have been mushroom picking in the Finnish forests I can identify a couple of safe shrooms but I need to expand my horizons.. safely. as a local said to me “you can eat any mushroom …once”

By: firepits

firepits — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:44:31 +0000

The info is really useful. The 9 steps are really meaningful.

By: neil mahler

neil mahler — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:28:34 +0000

A very apt comment.
Even eating shop fungi which are past their sale by date pose the same risks.

Eating too many of a new type of wild fungi – say Wood Blewits, can give you a bad case of diarrhoea.
It has not been proven, but eating Chicken of the Woods growing on Yew is potentially very dangerous, but there are cases of severe poisoning caused by this fungus, so some people do react differently.

By: Hyde

Hyde — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:47 +0000

My brother positively identified a non toxic mushroom. He then was severely ill after eating it cooked on toast – I mean diarrahoea, vomiting, blacking over, fever, seizures – nasty stuff. We took him to hospital where they assumed he misidentified it and treated him for amanita phalloides symptoms where we were all extremely scared and worried for him, potentially needing a liver transplant. Finally on day 3 they identified the remaining mushroom in a lab as non poisionous BUT having a very toxic bacterium on it. The moral of the story – there is no way to be 100% safe wild mushroom picking – BEWARE!