Mushroom time - a warning: mushrooms are dangerous not only because poisonous...

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First step -
Data from the Alpine Rescue organisation of Lombardia, show that about one hundred accidents per year happen to people who go mushrooming. 20% of these accidents are mortal! Most of the times people who go mushrooming are alone, they do not say where they go to anybody and it is difficult to find and rescue them in the depths of woods.
Here a few rules to go mushrooming safely:
*let somebody know where you are going
*Put on coloured clothes and good boots with rubber soles that can offer strong grip on all types of terrain
*Take the mobile phone with you
Second step -
Many mushrooms are poisonous, some are letal (as amanita, cortinarius orellanus, some boletus), some just can cause severe or light troubles.
Recently a mushroom, up to now, classified as edible, the Tricholoma equestre, has been judged responsible of an acute poisoning in the Czech Republic. The poisoning caused a massive distruction of muscles (rabdomiolysis) in two persons who ingested the mushroom for 9 days.
Some mushrooms are very difficult to identify and can be mistaken with others that are similar but poisonous.

Therefore
*if you have any doubt in identification, do not eat the mushrooms or show them to an expert mycologist.
*if you have any stomach troubles or nervous symptoms (as dispnoea or cardiac rythm alteration) go to an Emergency department: to-day the amanitine can be detected in urine and therapy for Amanita poisoning can be early