Poisonous mushroom soup 2 grabs grandmother lives in a nursing home

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Two grandmothers dying nursing home residents. The reason is because they ate poisonous wild mushroom soup. Meanwhile, three other residents of the nursing home was rushed to the hospital.

The death toll is Barbara Lopes (86) and Teresa Olesniewicz (73). They live in a nursing home Gold Age Villa in Loomis, California, USA. Sacramento Bee reported livescience.com and quoted on Tuesday (13/11/2012).

This event is thought to occur because of chance. For caregivers who prepared the soup is also being treated in hospital after eating the mushroom soup.

Types of mushrooms are cooked is still unknown. Dr. Todd Mitchell who manage patients call these people amatoxin poisoning.

Some spesien mushrooms in California was shut down. 90 Percent of existing mold-related deaths and disturbances in the liver if left untreated. It was mentioned in a paper in the journal Toxicon amatoxin about in 2010.

Generally, fungi are responsible for the deaths of a number of people in California and around the world is Amanita phalloides dubbed the 'death cap'. Amatoxin fatal dose of only 1.1 ounces (30 grams), or about half a mushroom cap.

Patients treated Dr Mitchell reported silibin given intravenous medication, an experimental drug derived from the seeds of thistles kind that has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Unlike in the U.S., the drug is approved for use in Europe.

Last month, a drug that has saved the life of a Connecticut woman who consumed mushrooms nicknamed 'angel destroyer' (Amanita bisporigera), a close cousin 'death cap'.

When other treatments do not seem to show results, the hospital board approved the use of the experimental drug. After taking the medicine one patient showed signs of improvement.

source:  livescience