Death cap
Mushroom pale toadstool - one of the most deadly and poisonous mushrooms. Cases of poisoning are not found everywhere, but in some cases, mortality after poisoning reaches 90%.
At a young age, the pale grebe is ovoid and covered with a film. At an older age, the fungus has a hat-legged fruiting body.
The cap of the toadstool can be olive, grayish or greenish. It reaches from five to fifteen centimeters. It can be flat or hemispherical. The edge of the cap is smooth and the surface is wavy. When damaged, the pulp of the toadstool does not change. She is fleshy and white. The fungus pale grebe has a mild smell and taste. Also on the leg very often you can find a moire pattern. If the mushroom is old, then it acquires an unpleasant sweetish taste and turns gray even more.
Very often, especially inexperienced mushroom pickers confuse pale grebe with or. In order not to confuse a dangerous mushroom with delicious delicacies, you need to carefully examine every centimeter. In champignon, the plates are pinkish at a young age, and then lilac. If the plates remain white all the time, this is signs of pale toadstool. To distinguish a toadstool from a russula, you need to look at the leg: the edible mushroom has no plates.
Having eaten this mushroom, you may not immediately realize that the body has been poisoned. The toxin of the pale toadstool is insidious and does not immediately make itself felt. No heat treatment affects the poison of the fungus. First symptoms toadstool poisoning may appear in a day, although all this time the body was poisoned, the toxin has already begun to spread to all organs. A person who has been poisoned by a mushroom begins to feel headaches, and only then the whole set of symptoms of poisoning - severe vomiting, thirst, anxiety, muscle pain, indigestion and blurred vision. A poisoned person may develop jaundice, drop blood pressure, enlarge the liver and weaken the pulse. If children are poisoned with a toadstool, then in almost all cases it leads to death. On the third day after the poisoning, the condition may improve, but this is a false effect, and it lasts a couple of days. Even if a person who has poisoned with a pale toadstool feels fine, the poison in his body continues to destroy the kidneys and liver. From the moment of poisoning, death occurs within ten days.
The poison of this fungus is so strong that only thirty milligrams of pale grebe is enough for a person to be fatal. Therefore, even if you suspect poisoning, you should always contact specialists. Only in medical institutions can help to cope with the poison. Slowness and self-treatment in case of mushroom poisoning with a pale grebe is a direct road leading to death.
