Low-cost management of mushroom poisoning in a limited-resource area: a 12-year retrospective study.

Low-cost management of mushroom poisoning in a limited-resource area: a 12-year retrospective study. Trop Doct. 2020 Jan 21;:49475519897704 Authors: Jongthun R, Hemachudha P, Wacharapluesadee S, Hemachudha T Abstract Amatoxin poisoning is the main cause of death from accidental ingestion of poisonous mushrooms and a mortality rate of 27.3% has been reported in Thailand. Symptoms of mushroom ingestion are often confused with food poisoning; thus, gastroenteritis is not recognised as the first phase of poisoning. Our study assessed the efficacy of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) as a treatment for amatoxin poisoning. We retrospectively analysed 74 medical records over 12 years. The majority (70/74) were treated successfully with NAC; death in the remaining 4 (5.4%) patients was attributed to late presentation in three and advanced alcoholic cirrhosis in one. PMID: 31964279 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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