Mushrooms – very useful product for a human body, contains in them huge amount of cellulose, protein and various minerals which are necessary for health. However, you should not feed small children with mushrooms as they can be dangerous to them.
Why with mushrooms it is necessary to be more careful?
Digestion of the child is still insufficiently perfect to digest mushrooms without consequences. Organisms of children do not produce the necessary amount of enzymes for processing of protein which contains in mushrooms. Therefore the child can get poisoned even with mushrooms, edible and absolutely safe for the adult. Similar poisonings proceed very hard, from hundred children who got poisoned with mushrooms six perish, and about thirty get serious diseases which is resulted in disability.
Shlyapochny mushrooms are picked by compounds of the dangerous heavy metals capable even in small amounts to affect the child's organism. The combination of several dangerous substances can cause serious consequences therefore you should not buy mushrooms from unchecked grandmothers in the markets, to bring together them in forests near roads and the highway.
Nursing mothers should refrain from the use of forest mushrooms. In certain cases the toxins which got to milk caused poisoning in chest babies.
The hot damp summer or long drought lead to the fact that the metabolism of mushrooms changes, so, also their players are changed. They begin to accumulate toxins in doses, harmless to adults. However, the same doses can is irreversible to influence the child's organism. Nutritionists consider that the lower age level for introduction of mushrooms to a diet – seven years. It is possible to feed children from this age with the checked champignons or oyster mushrooms. Up to seven years even completely safe mushrooms can cause unpleasant consequences as digestive system will not be able to cope with them.
In addition to difficulties of digestion and assimilation some mushrooms can cause serious allergies. First of all it belongs to russulas.
Poisoning with mushrooms
From the moment of poisoning before manifestation of the first symptoms there can pass from one to nine-ten hours. At first sharp pains in a stomach are shown, then there is nausea, vomiting and a diarrhea that causes organism dehydration. Skin of the child gains unnatural pallor, fingers and lips become blue. Then terrible headaches begin. Spasms can begin. After emergence of the first symptoms it is very important to call "ambulance". Before arrival of doctors of the child it is necessary to give to drink warm water, to try to provoke vomiting for clarification of a stomach from toxins. After that it is necessary to give activated carbon to the child. Further treatment has to be carried out in office of toxicology.