People In NSW Keep Accidentally Eating Poisonous Mushrooms So Pls Just Go To The Shops Instead

The NSW Poisons Information Centre has reported a spike in people getting sick from eating foraged poisonous mushrooms. I know the cottagecore aesthetic is an absolute vibe but please, let us stick to Pinterest and calming TikTok videos instead. Between the 1st and 18th of May, the centre got a whopping 56 calls about mushroom exposures as per the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. 37 of those calls were about mushrooms which were foraged or “consumed for recreational purposes”. Guys, please. I know going hunting for mushrooms is an absolute vibe. Mushrooms are great. Definitely up there with the best fungi. But you really shouldn’t be foraging and eating your own mushrooms. They’re sly little bastards! Because the weather’s been so fucking wet, mushrooms have been popping up absolutely everywhere. I mean, let us not forget the guy who ate “flood mushrooms”

Genevieve Adamo

“If not properly identified, mushrooms picked in the wild can make you very ill and could be lethal,” she said.

“There is no reliable way to identify mushrooms picked in the wild, so it’s best to completely avoid picking or eating wild mushrooms. It is simply not worth the risk.

“Cooking or boiling wild mushrooms also does not make them safe to eat, which is why we recommend people to only eat store-bought mushrooms.”

Lydia BuchtmannSydney Morning Herald

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