What is the most poisonous mushroom to humans?

Answer 1

The Amanita phalloides or death cap is quite deadly. The dangerous thing about it is that it resembled edible species. This type of mushroom is can be found across Europeduring summer and autumn. It has a greenishcap with a white stipe and gills.

This type is very toxic, research has pointed out that 30 grams (1 oz), or half a cap is enough to kill a human. Also the toxicity is not reduced by cooking, freezing or drying.

When you eat this mushroom, apparently they taste pleasant, you won't notice anything right away. But during this delay of symptoms severe organ damage is being done. After that you will start to have all kind of symptoms like colicky abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomitting.

These first symptoms go away after a two or three days, so you feel healed, but in fact your liver is severely damaged causing dead between the six and sixteen days.

The only thing that can save you is a liver transplantbut finding a liver in such a short notice is virtually impossible.

There have been claims of people curing themselves from this by having a antibiotics treatment and ingesting a lot of vitamin C, but this has not been clinically confirmed.