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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Mushroom Poisoning
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Emergency measures, Specific measures, Outcome, Prognosis, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: mushroom poisoning.
Excerpt: | |  Induce vomiting and administer activated charcoal (60–100 g orally or via gastric tube, mixed in aqueous slurry) for any recent ingestion
Give intravenous fluids to replace losses from vomiting and diarrhea After the onset of symptoms, efforts to remove the toxic agent are probably useless, especially in cases of amatoxin or gyromitrin poisoning, in which there is usually a delay of 12 h or more before symptoms occur |
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