A Melbourne woman has died after eating death cap mushrooms / File
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Melbourne woman dies after eating mushrooms
A MELBOURNE woman has died after eating death cap mushrooms.
The Box Hill woman, aged in her early 50s, was taken to the Austin Hospital in a critical condition on Wednesday, suffering severe poisoning.
The woman died today, the hospital said in a brief statement, adding that the family had requested privacy.
Austin Hospital emergency department director Dr Fergus Kerr said that the woman, of Chinese background, ate a meal on the weekend that contained mushrooms picked in a park in Box Hill.
He warned one death cap mushroom was enough to kill a person and about half the people who eat them die.
Two people died in Canberra earlier this year after eating such mushrooms.
Death cap poisoning can be hard to detect as it can take up to 24 hours for initial symptoms to appear.
“Violent” gastroenteritis, vomiting and diarrhoea within the first 24 hours can progress to organ failure.
Health authorities have urged people not to pick their own mushrooms as the cold damp weather has created the perfect conditions for the poisonous fungi.
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