help - deathcap poisoning?

[jofreebird2000]

hi

i touched a mushroom yesterday, i think it was a deathcap, i washed my hands when i returned home about an hour later. about 6-10 hours later i felt very sick, no actual vomiting though.

i am VERY worried, can the toxin be absorbed through the skin? can i suffer serious helth problems from this??

i have a pic but its not very clear that it is/isnt a deathcap

please help, need advice

jo

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi jofreebird,

You cannot have been poisoned by just touching the mushroom.

You would have had to eat it.

Read this thread - it will give you the necessary reassurance.

Can You Be POISONED by touching mushrooms?

Regards
Mike.

[Hedge Witch]

Hi Jo - I think you'll be fine. Please calm down. You didn't eat any. People have tasted it and lived (but spat it out, of course). The amount needed to kill is around 1/2 a cap (or if not this, a significant portion of a cap). Not possible to absorb this through the skin).

[NickCantle]

No need to worry if you've not ingested anything.

[solus]

I was going to say your sick-feelings were psychosomatic but I couldn't spell it!

Hopefully reading the linked thread will have put your mind at rest by now. To be fair, you don't even know for sure what this fungus was - might be interesting to see the pic, even if it's not very clear, as some of the experts here might recognise it. (I have great faith in their ID skills, even from bad photos, the like of which I sometimes submit for help!)

Edit: An afterthought. Doesn't such poisoning take days rather than hours to have an effect anyway?

[NickCantle]

Definitely upload your picture anyway!

[jofreebird2000]

thanks guys, feel much calmer now.

couldnt find anything on google as to yes/no absorb toxin through skin.

have food allergies so must have been that and not the slimy mushroom. lesson learnt though, shant be wiping mud off strange fungii just so the photo looks better!!!!

no idea how to post pic, not on my puter anymore (went to mums to panic a bit more!)

thanks again (a very relieved) jo
xxx

[NickCantle]

Glad you feel better Jo

[jofreebird2000]

[NickCantle]

Don't know what it is but it doesn't look particularly like Amanita phalloides. I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine