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I don't know about snakebites but recently I read about a man who ate a Destroying Angel mushroom by mistake. He was given an antidote for the toxin which amaze
by dghughes 3y ago
I don't know about snakebites but recently I read about a man who ate a Destroying Angel mushroom by mistake. He was given an antidote for the toxin which amazed that me such a thing existed. I wonder how similar if at all amatoxin and snakebite venom are? One is venom and one is a poison so maybe not much.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/health/mushrooms-poisoning-foraging/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/health/mushrooms-poisoning-fo...
- ovi256 3y agoEven for snake venom, the antidote is species specific. My guess is mycotoxins couldn't be more different - mushrooms are from a different kingdom of life altogether and don't share much physiology.
- southernplaces7 3y agoAs I’m mowing the ditch, I go by them three or four times, and I’m like, ‘Man, those look good,’ ” the 55-year-old said, closing his eyes as he remembers the day. For generations, the Hickman family has foraged for mushrooms. Unlike his great-grandparents, who had to study which ones were safe to eat, Hickman thought he had an advantage: He pulled out his smartphone, photographed the fungi and uploaded the image to a plant identifier. I can't even begin to fathom how someone would think this was a remotely smart idea. Trusting a photo identification algorithm on some random fuck-knows identifier based on your possibly badly composed phone photos, all because "man those look good".. Mind boggling.
- rurp 3y agoNo kidding! I briefly looked into mushroom foraging, but after learning how similar tasty mushrooms and you-will-die-a-quick-painful-death ones looked, I quickly lost all interest. The payoffs are about as asymmetric as it gets. Blindly following a random phone app identificaton makes it even worse.