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Yes, poisonous mushrooms need to be swallowed to hurt you
My parents taught me not to touch them anyway because I might stick my fingers in my mouth later, and some mushrooms are very poisonous.
I guess I haven’t updated my mushroom/mold policy in the decades that followed.
For a child, or pet, it is probably good advice, especially because extremely amounts of toxin can be transferred through your pores and they are potentially more affected. rashes, itching, nausea, eye irritation are possible in those cases, but even with the craziest mushrooms, cases are extremely rare. I've picked up the death cap with my bare hands, and yet I type this.
That's not what Mario taught me. Those poison mushrooms kill you on contact.