![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-nearly-died-from-spaghetti-laced-with-same-death-cap-mushrooms-that-killed-3/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23437773-1691697823394.jpg&description=DEADLY SYMPTOMS Published : 21:19, 10 Aug 2023 Updated : 21:22, 10 Aug 2023 A MAN almost died after his wife laced his dinner with the same death cap mushrooms that recently killed three in Australia. Simon Claringbold, 64, from Canberra , became violently ill after eating the deadly fungi he picked from his garden. 2 Simon Claringbold almost died after eating a death cap mushroom Credit: AU News 2 He picked the fungi from his garden thinking it was a field mushroom Credit: Facebook The marathon-running fitness fan tucked into his wife's homemade spaghetti bolognese after she used his pickings - but just 18 hours later he was rushed to hospital . He had plucked the mushrooms thinking that they were field mushrooms but they actually turned out to be death caps. Simon revealed that the only reason he managed to survive the nightmare ordeal aged in 1998 is plain luck. Doctors explained to 39-year-old at the time that some death cap mushrooms are more deadly than others because they contain varying levels of toxins. "Their toxin levels aren't going to be consistent; it's not like taking a pill out of a bottle," Simon said. "Sometimes some will have more toxin than others and it was just a chance that you didn't ingest enough to overcome." The bloke suffered from intense vomiting and diarrhoea before airlifted to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney . A liver expert then revealed that he had consumed a death cap mushroom as he quickly began hallucinating and blacking out as the effects of the toxins took over. "I didn't even know that death cap mushrooms existed," he said at the time. "I was preparing for the end, I really thought it was the end. The lights were starting to go out," he said. Simon eventually recovered from the death cap mushroom poisoning and was discharged from the hospital 11 days later. These were the same variety of fungi thought to have been eaten in the Leongatha, Australia , tragedy in the past few days. Erin Patterson, 48, invited Gail and Don){kind=link}
A MAN almost died after his wife laced his dinner with the same death cap mushrooms that recently killed three in Australia.
Simon Claringbold, 64, from Canberra, became violently ill after eating the deadly fungi he picked from his garden.
The marathon-running fitness fan tucked into his wife’s homemade spaghetti bolognese after she used his pickings – but just 18 hours later he was rushed to hospital.
He had plucked the mushrooms thinking that they were field mushrooms but they actually turned out to be death caps.
Simon revealed that the only reason he managed to survive the nightmare ordeal aged in 1998 is plain luck.