In the fall, at the height of the mushroom season, many mushroom pickers go on the "quiet hunt" path. However, not all mushrooms are equally useful, despite the fact that some of them are very attractive in appearance. What does a poisonous entolome look like and why shouldn’t it be eaten?
Mushroom description
Entomol poisonous, or Poisonous Plateau poisonous is a toxic fungus of the genus Entoloma. It has the following characteristics:
- The hat is round, sometimes conical in shape, ranging in size from 5 to 17 cm in diameter with a dirty pink color with a grayish tint. Sometimes it has folds in the center of the cap. In rainy weather it becomes slippery and sticky.
- The mushroom pulp is white. With a break does not change color.
- The leg has a height of 4-14 cm with a thickness of up to 2 cm. It is curved, cylindrical in shape, sometimes the description of the poisonous entholoma characterizes it as thickening to the bottom, compressed. The surface of the legs is white-gray with a powdery coating closer to the hat.
- The taste is described as slurred or unpleasant, with bitterness.
- The young mushroom emits the smell of freshly ground flour; it becomes rancid during aging.
It is necessary to remember exactly the appearance of the poisonous mushroom in order not to accidentally put it in an edible basket. To do this, you should carefully study the photo of the poisonous entholoma.
Habitat
The poisonous entomol mushroom is thermophilic; therefore, it can often be found in the European part of Russia, southern Siberia, the North Caucasus, Ukraine, and Belarus. Occasionally found in France, Austria. The harvest of the pink plate can not be called abundant, but still in some places you can find whole mushroom glades.
Mushroom grows from early May to mid-October in deciduous or mixed forests, planting. Often you can find it next to trees such as oak, birch, beech, hornbeam, willow. Poisonous entoloma prefers heavy soils with a high content of lime. It grows more often singly, rarely large clusters can be found. Like all mushrooms, he loves places with high humidity. For example, under bushes or on land in a thick layer of fallen leaves.
Signs of Poisoning
The first signs of food poisoning by entomol poisonous will appear already half an hour after eating. In this case, for severe poisoning you need to eat only one small piece. Poisoning can be determined by several signs:
- migraine that does not go away;
- dizziness, loss of coordination;
- nausea and frequent vomiting;
- diarrhea and flatulence;
- weakness in the body.
At the first sign, it is important to seek medical help, as in some cases a fatal outcome is possible. With first aid and taking drugs to remove toxins, recovery occurs within 3-4 days.
Poisoning treatment
When poisoning with a poisonous mushroom, the first thing you need to call an ambulance. In this case, the patient is taken to the hospital for further hospitalization, and the remains of the mushrooms are taken for examination to the laboratory to determine toxicity.
The hospital provides the following help with poisoning:
- Rinse the stomach with plenty of warm, slightly salted water in order to remove the remnants of toxins from the body that have not yet had time to absorb into the blood or pass from the stomach to the intestines. To do this, a large amount of water is drunk, and then vomiting is artificially induced, the procedure is repeated several times.
- The intestines are washed with an enema with a rehydron or a small amount of table salt. The procedure is also repeated several times.
- Absorbents are given that neutralize the action of the toxins of the fungus.
- If diarrhea has not yet begun, then the patient is given a laxative.
- When eating a large number of poisonous mushrooms, inflammation of the gastric mucosa may begin. In this case, the patient is injected intravenously with a mixture of glucose and saline.
- Sometimes a blood transfusion may be required.
It is important to ensure a drinking regime with the use of large amounts of mineral water to eliminate toxins naturally. In addition, after all the manipulations performed, a person will feel a strong thirst. When poisoning with entoloma poisonous, hospitalization is indicated for 2-4 days, depending on the severity of the condition.
First aid
Despite the fact that entomol poisoning is not considered the most life-threatening, you should call an ambulance. However, this is not always possible, since in rural areas there are often no medical service vehicles. In this case, the person should be taken to the nearest hospital on their own, but first you need to provide first aid. It consists in the following actions:
- To speed up the release of toxins in a natural way, you can use Vaseline or vegetable oil, which provokes diarrhea. This is true if the first signs of poisoning pass without diarrhea.
- Rinse the stomach with plenty of warm water.
- Give the patient activated charcoal.
- In the presence of chills, the poisoned should be placed in a warm place, wrapped in a blanket or blanket.
- In addition to plain water, the use of black tea without sugar is allowed. Milk and juices are strictly prohibited.
In any case, after first aid, the patient should be taken to the toxicological department of the hospital in order to avoid deterioration of the situation.
Possible consequences
Even after timely medical assistance and recovery, some symptoms may appear for some time:
- migraine;
- digestive upset;
- irritability;
- intense thirst.
Most often they occur in children, as they have a small body weight, which is why the absorption of toxic substances is faster.
Double mushrooms
The poisonous entolome, whose place is in the forest, and not on the dining table, may be there by chance. The fact is that the mushroom is very similar to some edible species, because of which it can be collected by an inexperienced mushroom picker.
Mushrooms such as the garden entomola, the hangman, the Mayan rowan, the smoky talker, the pigeon rowan, and the common mushroom are similar to the poisonous entholoma.
Due to the carelessness of mushroom pickers or the purchase of a poisonous mushroom under the guise of an edible, about 10% of all food poisoning associated with forest gifts is noted.