Man Who Injected Mushroom Tea Hospitalized Due to Deadly Fungi Growing in His Blood

A 30-year-old man was admitted in the hospital with multiple organ failure and fungal infections after he tried self-medicating with mushroom tea.

How the Victim was Hospitalized

According to the report, the man injected a mushroom tea into his system but was rushed to the hospital after he developed a deadly outbreak of fungi growing in his blood.

According to the team of doctors and medical students from the Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix, the man self-medicated with psilocybin also known as a magic mushroom which is known for its hallucination effects.

The man with type 1 bipolar disorder researched the therapeutic effects of micro dosing LSD and psilocybin after which he tried making medication for himself.

He then tried brewing tea out of these mushrooms by boiling them with water and also filtering them using a cotton swab before injecting this final content into his system intravenously, as per Vice.

A few days after the supposed treatment, he fell into a critical condition with different symptoms including lethargy, jaundice, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting of blood before he was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

From the test results in the hospital, he was diagnosed with acute kidney dysfunction, liver injury, and multi-organ failure, and blood test results confirmed the presence of fungi and bacteria in his bloodstream, these fungi where growing in his veins by feeding off his bloodstream.

The 30 years old man was treated with an intense dose of anti-fungal treatment which will be a continuous treatment to prevent the fungi from regrowing.

Effects of Magic Mushroom

Psilocybin mushrooms; commonly known as magic mushrooms are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi with psilocybin as its most common properties. psilocybin-containing species are dark-spored, gilled mushrooms that grow mostly in subtropics and tropics.

They are sometimes used as recreational drugs but they are said to have physical effects including nausea, vomiting, euphoria, muscle weakness or relaxation, drowsiness, and lack of coordination. These symptoms may occur about 20 mins after consumption and last up to 6 hours.

Although there are no signs of physical or psychological dependence (addiction), this mushroom is still considered dangerous and can be quite harmful to the human health if not handled properly.

Case Report From 1985

In 1985, there was a similar report of a 30 years old man carrying out the same experiment. He extracted the psilocybin from the magic mushroom unlike the current mushroom tea method.

He also injected it intravenously and got similar symptoms as the current case report. Symptoms like vomiting, muscle aches and acute fever, as well as low oxygen and high methemoglobin in the blood.

According to the report author, "The case reported above underscores the need for ongoing public education regarding the dangers attendant to the use of this [psilocybin], and other drugs, in ways other than they are prescribed."

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