You need to collect mushrooms only with a knowledgeable, experienced person in this matter. Not only poisonous mushrooms, but also mushrooms that are considered edible can be dangerous. In no case should you pick mushrooms growing on roadsides, near factories, factories and thermal power plants, said therapist, parasitologist Eduard Bartuli to the Public News Service.
Mushrooms are “filter feeders,” so they absorb all the toxins from the environment. If there is a road or factory nearby, it means that the mushrooms contain harmful substances from them. The doctor emphasized that mushrooms that “feed” on toxins threaten the person with serious poisoning. According to him, this depends on the individual characteristics of the body, because everyone’s threshold for intoxication is different.
“It also happens that people eat mushrooms when they are already spoiled; for example, if a jar of pickled mushrooms swells, you can get poisoned,” Bartuli warned.
The parasitologist concluded that the best way to learn how to pick mushrooms correctly is to go mushroom picking with experienced people who have been doing this job for many years.
Let us remind you that experts emphasisBefore going to the forest to pick mushrooms, it is important to carefully study their appearance and properties. This needs to be handled responsibly as some inedible species may resemble edible species. For example, fringed poisonous galena can be confused with summer honey mushrooms.
Russians before saidwhere picking mushrooms is strictly prohibited.