Wild Mushrooms: An Exclusive Delicacy or Last Meal

Poisonings due to wild mushrooms have been known since ancient times; the first death as a result of their toxicity was described 450 years BC, and since then we have identified more than 5000 different kinds of mushrooms, with hundreds of them registered as poisonous. Ingestion of several types of wild mushrooms can lead to an urgent clinical state and development of various symptoms of which the most dangerous are severe impairment in renal and liver functions (1, 2)