I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)

Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by catalogia on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:31PM (#21287888)

> "With early diagnosis, another experimental treatment includes massive doses of penicillin to stimulate the liver’s defenses."

The solution to fungus is... more fungus! Really goes to show the incredible breadth of this form of life.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by Alex3917 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:57PM (#21288287)

I mean the main cure is milk thistle extract, I think the penicillin is/was just thought to potentiate it slightly if you can't get silbinin intravenously. In the U.S. it's still not FDA approved, so IIRC if you get poisoned you need to somehow get to Washington DC because that's where the clinical trial is happening.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00915681

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:51PM (#21287975)

How so? This is pretty much the same idea as an Irish petty king inviting in some Norman troops to show the other petty kings who's boss. (It turned out to be the Normans, of course.)

Penicillin works by killing other similar things.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by whyenot on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:22PM (#21288114)

> Penicillin works by killing other similar things

Pencillin is an antibiotic derived from fungi (Penicillium spp.). It kills bacteria. Bacteria and fungi are in two different kingdoms on the tree of life. These two groups of organisms are just about as dissimilar from each other as any two living things can be.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by Scoundreller on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:11AM (#21288609)

Other than they cohabit the same environments, hence why evolution/adaption has favoured the one that produces more bacteria toxin.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by thaumasiotes on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:08AM (#21289269)

They live in the same environments and compete with each other for the same resources. Depending on your point of view, this is enough to make them more similar to each other than, say, lions and whales, which are both mammals.

Taxonomic closeness is only one kind of similarity.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by catalogia on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:22PM (#21288107)

Some mushrooms kill you, others save your life, and yet others expand your mind. It's subjective, but I consider it incredible.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by Scoundreller on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:09AM (#21288602)

In other words, they're all edible. But some of them only once.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by workmandan on Friday October 18, 2019 @05:05AM (#21289781)

Edible does not mean "can physically be eaten" it means "is safe to eat". So no, poisonous mushrooms are not edible.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by greencore on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:32AM (#21290804)

There was a 50yo man in Lithuania that made bet that he will not die from Amanita phalloides (because scientist are hiding the truth etc.) as he didn't die from Amanita muscaria previous year.

So he died in 5 days.

https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/vyras-sumane-p...

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by WD-42 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:30PM (#21288410)

Penicillin kills bacteria. The two are not similar at all! Nor is penicillin (a fungus) even remotely similar to a virus. Doesn’t stop people from taking them for any illness I guess.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by m463 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:03PM (#21288036)

Sort of a "hair of the dog" (except it's another dog species)

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