Magic truffle intoxication: A case report
2022
Le Daré, Brendan | Pelletier, Romain | Couette, Aurélien | Morel, Isabelle | Gicquel, Thomas | Nutrition, Métabolismes et Cancer (NuMeCan) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes [CHU Rennes] = Rennes University Hospital [Pontchaillou]
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显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]英语. Unusual forms of hallucinogenic mushrooms are emerging, which may delay diagnosis and compromise optimal management. Here, we discuss clinical and biological findings in a case of "magic mushroom" intoxication in a 20-year-old man who was brought to hospital emergency department in a state of euphoria, disorientation, intense visual hallucinations, episodic amnesia and agitation requiring physical restraint. The patient's family brought intact specimens of the consumed product, without any health professional being able to identify it. Toxicological screening detected psilocin in urine and in the unknown mushrooms, allowing guiding the mushroom identification towards the Psilocybes genus. Ten hours post-ingestion, the patient was discharged asymptomatic. We believe that recognition of the unusual form of hallucinogenic mushroom presented here by emergency physicians might contribute to better diagnosis and subsequent optimal management, especially since hallucinogenic substances are not routinely tested in toxicological analyses.
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