%0 Journal Article
%T Mushroom Poisoning: A Case Report from Jordan
%A Ali M. Shotar
%A Sukaina A. Alzyoud
%A Omar Samara
%A Jamal Obeidat
%J Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 2012
%I Asian Network for Scientific Information
%X An eight years male child with his family ate fresh mushroom at lunch time from back garden at their home in a village in the North of Jordan. By the evening approximately six hours later all started feeling nausea, abdominal cramps and vomiting they rushed to nearest primary health care center. After getting general medical medication they were transfer to a referral hospital at city of Irbid. The boy got deteriorated with diarrhea in addition to the previous gastrointestinal complains and died on third day. The message from this case is to ascertain in the public opinion that unknown type of mushroom even eaten previously could be poisonous and fetal.
%K children fatal
%K Mushroom poisoning
%K Jordan
%U http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/pjbs/2012/208-211.pdf