What to do if you get poisoned by eating wild mushrooms

If a patient is poisoned by wild mushrooms, they usually fall into the category of poisonous mushroom poisoning, which is often life-threatening and requires immediate hospital treatment for detoxification. For example, gastric lavage is the most effective way to treat a patient who arrives at the hospital within eight hours of poisoning. When the patient is conscious, he can apply saline or warm water, but the amount of gastric lavage must be more than 10,000ml, and he can adopt the way of throat picking or can use the intubation method, and apply the electric gastric lavage machine to lavage the stomach. After gastric lavage, an enema with magnesium sulfate or mannitol should be applied to remove any food that has not been completely absorbed in the intestinal tract. There are specific antidotes for mushroom poisoning, for example, disodium dimercaptobutyrate can be applied. In severe cases of wild mushroom poisoning, if it leads to acute liver and kidney failure, continuous blood purification therapy must be performed.