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Five hospitalised for mushroom poisoning

Thursday, March 13, 2014
Five members of a family are being treated at the northern Thai Nguyen Province's General Hospital for mushroom poisoning.

 The victims, aged between 12 and 35, reportedly had symptoms of stomachache, vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea seven hours after they ate wild mushrooms collected from a local forest.

 As the patients were hospitalised at 7.30 am today, which was 20 hours after they had eaten the mushrooms, the treatment would be difficult, according to Ha Duc Trinh from the Thai Nguyen General Hospital.

 In a similar case, the hospital had received five members of another family on Sunday, who suffered serious damage to their liver and digestive systems and had symptoms of vomiting, nausea and a drop in the blood pressure. They too had eaten poisonous mushrooms. They are now being treated at the Bach Mai Hospital's Anti-poison Center. 
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