[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Capsicum just stimulates nerve endings. It does not damage flesh. Complete Bullshirt story.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Especially the headline.

[Jonty30]

At least, as I read the story, it wasn’t the pepper that injured him but the reaction of throwing up, because he couldn’t handle the heat, that injured him.

[doorgunner69]

Agreed, this clown had other issues.

I scarf down scrambled eggs with 1-2 Ghost peppers diced up. Burn, hell yes, but nothing more.

Have a Carolina Reaper plant now, even more serious. Only used it diced up in cornbread successfully. In eggs once was painful.

[Mr. K]

If you had actually READ IT you would know it wasn’t the pepper but his violent vomiting that caused the tear.

[CGASMIA68]

Read the frigen article.It doesn’t say the peppers burned a hole.

“He threw up so much, in fact, that he caused a tear to form in his esophagus—a rare condition known as Boerhaave syndrome”

[jiggyboy]

RTFA

[Kozak]

Wrong.
Severe vomiting, triggered by the pepper, caused a tear in the esophagus.
That can leak food and saliva into the mediastinum and cause a life threatening infection.

[luvbach1]

Capsicum just stimulates nerve endings. It does not damage flesh. Complete Bullshirt story.

I understood from the story that the violent vomiting caused the tear in his esophagus.

[sten]

Capsicum just stimulates nerve endings. It does not damage flesh. Complete Bullshirt story.

reading more then the headline would produce the cause of the tear: vomiting