This is what earline poisoning feels like | Hs.fi

Rich ten years ago Elisa Hautaniemi36, ate an ear paste in a restaurant in Helsinki. A few hours later, he was so confused and restless at home that the spouse was confused.

« It was such a drunken feeling, even though I hadn’t enjoyed alcohol. There was a mess and under the dining table for YouTube videos, which was really strange to me. »

At that moment, Hautaniemi was not aware of his confusion. He went to bed.

Next In the morning, the strange fooling continued, but nevertheless Hautaniemi went to work. At work, it started to dawn that not everything was fine. Hautaniemi applied for occupational health.

« They could ask the right questions and said that it was worth going to the update. »

However, according to liver values, doctors stated that the poisoning state was already over.

However, Hautaniemi did not receive traumas from his ear sponge. He recently ate a dose of ear fungus in Kosmos.

« (In the ear fungus) the same logic as in oysters. Sometimes I get a bad luck. I trust restaurants, but I might not eat any restaurant. »

The Food Agency is currently re -evaluating the safety of ear fungi.

Among other things, Kosmos CEO, known for his earnings, told HS on Tuesday followed by a tense earnings over the weekend.

In Lohja resident Kirsti Anttila79, in the 1970s a slight ear sponge.

Anttila’s doctor’s father had instructed to his daughter that after three weeks of drying, ear fungi would be non-toxic.

One spring, Anttila found a big sats ear mushrooms earlier in the spring next to the construction site, which he made a sauce after drying.

« I might even use the soaking water of the mushrooms in that sauce. Yes it tasted good. »

For the children of the family, the mushroom sauce did not taste, even though Anttila tried to show that the fungi was safe and good.

The next day, Anttila began to take effect. At the head, a terrible headache was stinging. The symptoms lasted for a couple of days.

« I called the poisoning center and it was advised that nothing could be done about it. »

However, something mushrooms did for Anttila’s liver, he thinks. For the next couple of months, every time he tried to drink alcohol, the same poisoning symptoms came to the surface.

« There was a long fresh season. Gradually it was possible to take the middle beer of the glass again. »

In the years 2000-2015 The Poisoning Information Center received less than 11,000 contacts with fungal poisoning. In more than half of the cases, fungi had not been identified. On the case of Nearly 10 % joined ear fungi.

Ear mushrooms contain a gyromitrin poison, the effects of acute poisoning on the digestive tract, central nervous system and liver.

Although the ear fungi is properly treated, there are always toxic residues in the fungi. Therefore, ear fungi is not recommended often.

Gyromitrine It has also been suspected to be one of the possible cause of the movement nerves to degrade ALS. The ordinary life expectancy of the disease is 3-5 years.

In a March story of the US The Atlantic told about the confused ALS center in the French Alps, to which the experts did not want to find a reason. In the end, the researchers found out that those suffering from the disease differed from their community in that they had enjoyed In their lives, ear fungi.

A similar possible connection between ALS and ear fungi has also been found in Eastern Finland. One study According to the evacuees in the area, the evacuee Karelians have experienced much more of the disease in relation to the rest of the population.

The Karelians had a long tradition of eating ear fungi, and in Kuopio, for example, fungi was consumed five times more than usual during the war because there was a shortage of food. At that time, mushrooms were also treated with less care.

However, no direct link between the gyromitrin and the ALS disease has not been found.