Mom and son critical after accidentally cooking dinner with toxic mushrooms

Death cap mushroom (Pixabay)

Death cap mushroom (Pixabay)

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(FOX NEWS) – A Massachusetts mother and her son are recovering from a near-death experience after they both ingested highly toxic "death cap" mushrooms they had foraged for dinner.

Amherst woman Kam Look, 63, and son Kai Chen, 27, were outside gathering mushrooms similar to ones they would find in Malaysia to cook with, UMass Memorial Medical Center said in a news release.

Both started feeling sick during dinner and were reportedly able to drive themselves to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.

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