Mycologist told why people began to poison edible mushrooms

The mushroom menu for four days turned into a hospital bed for a resident of the Moscow region. All this time she was eating cooked mushrooms, and at some point the body failed: nausea, indigestion, chills, fatigue. The woman did not seek help for a long time, but the condition worsened, and as a result, relatives called an ambulance.

In the Krasnogorsk clinical hospital, doctors recorded severe intoxication. The patient needed infusion therapy - for several days she was given droppers to cleanse the body of toxins and return the electrolyte balance to normal. It is reported that the woman is now recovering.

"MK" found out from mycologist-toxicologist, director of the Center for Innovative Mycological Research, candidate of biological sciences Mikhail Vladimirovich Vishnevsky, how not to be poisoned by mushrooms.

- In general, now the situation is such that you can be poisoned by the most common edible mushrooms, because there are a lot of people, and it is difficult to calculate the most frequent such genotypes of people who are characterized by individual sensitivity to certain fungi. Now people are poisoned with white mushrooms, podulinovychki, subberries, foxes. And this is not a mass phenomenon, but the individual characteristics of each person. Therefore, now it is time to introduce a new universal rule: if you include in your menu a new mushroom that you have not eaten before, even if it is an ordinary mushroom from the store, any edible forest mushroom, even a classic, which all life, all generations have always collected, then first you need to eat no more than 100-150 grams. In this case, pre-boil them and try. If everything is normal, then it is already possible to eat this type of mushrooms quite calmly, without fear. If there are no painful symptoms, syndromes, manifestations.

As the old-style nutritionists say: mushrooms are coarse, heavy ballast food. And if we really eat mushrooms, as our ancestors ate, then you should not eat more than three hundred grams of mushrooms per day. And don’t do it every day: two or three times a week. Then mushrooms as heavy food will not play a bad role.

The MK correspondent also asked how to properly store cooked mushrooms.

- Cooked mushrooms are stored for a short time, they should be treated like salads. Salads are half a day according to GOST. Well, a day in the fridge is no longer worth it. If it is supposed to be stored longer, it is necessary to freeze and store in the freezer.