It is precisely immigrants, asylum seekers and tourists who are most at risk to suffer from mushroom poisoning, says Erik Lindeman, who is chief physician at the Poison Information Centre.
– It is common for those who become mushroom poisoning have a foreign background. It could be tourists, asylum seekers and migrants, who set out in the Swedish forests, and think to recognize fungi as they have good experience in their home countries, he said.
The case of the Syrian the woman in Teckomatorp is not unique. In 2008, died a Thai woman in Helsingborg, after she ate a mushroom in appearance resembles an edible mushroom in Thailand.
– We have therefore produced leaflets which we translated into 29 different languages. They are the Poison Centre website says Erik Lindeman.
Poison also has been in contact with the Swedish Migration Board, and asked them to pass on the information to their reception centers and accommodation. This year information has not had time to go out yet.
But the Swedish Migration Board’s press secretary Irene Sokolow confirms that it has received Poisons Information Centre information and will pass on them.
– Just in Malmö so we will go out to our various places and handing out these pamphlets, says Irene Sokolow.
Annually, take poison against up to 2000 calls from people who suspect they have eaten a poisonous mushroom. Among these, it is between 50 and 100 situations that can be dangerous. And even if the fungi that can cause life-threatening injuries in Sweden are few, so similar to the three most poisonous mushrooms in appearance those we often eat.
– Spindle Disc Lingen is an autumn mushrooms and can be confused with chanterelle. Then we have then the white fly agaric and insidious, says Irene Sokolow.
The latter two are deadly, even in very small doses.
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