NAN, June 14 (TNA) – Two seriously ill patients were under close watch, especially on their liver and kidney functions, at Nan Hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms.
Dr Pongthep Wongwacharapaiboon, deputy director of the hospital, said three local people drank and ate white mushrooms collected from a forest in Bo Klue sub-district of Bo Klue. Three hours afterwards they developed nausea, vomited and suffered diarrhea. They were rushed to Bo Klue Hospital and one of them was later discharged.
The two others developed liver inflammation and kidney disease and were referred to Nan Hospital. Doctors assumed they ate death cap mushrooms which look like edible mushrooms but can seriously damage liver and kidney.
Dr Pongthep said the number of patients suffering from poisonous mushrooms usually soared at his hospital during the rainy season and many of them came from Bo Klue and Chalerm Phrakiat districts where there were many poisonous mushrooms. (TNA)
