Posted on 10/21/2016 8:13:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SAN FRANCISCO, - A team of San Francisco-area doctors detailed the case of a 47-year-old man whose attempt at eating ghost peppers caused a rupture in his esophagus.
The Journal of Emergency Medicine case report, authored by Dr. Craig Smollin and his team, said the man was participating in an eating contest at a San Francisco restaurant when he wolfed down a hamburger topped with ghost peppers, which have more than twice the heat of habanero peppers.
"To our knowledge, no significant adverse effects of ghost pepper ingestion have been reported," the case report's abstract states.
The man suffered severe vomiting and dry-heaving after ingesting the peppers, leading him to be admitted to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
Doctors discovered the man had suffered a 1-inch rupture in his esophagus, which allowed food debris and air to end up inside his chest and collapse one of his lungs.
Smollin said the esophagus rupture resulted from the man's body's reaction to the spicy peppers. He said the team decided to author the case study because the incident was a very rare occurrence.
"There are many people who have ghost peppers and most people don't develop any type of severe symptoms," Smollin told The Los Angeles Times.
The patient was fitted with a gastric tube and sent home after 23 days in the hospital.
"This case serves as an important reminder of a potentially life-threatening surgical emergency initially interpreted as discomfort after a large spicy meal," the study authors wrote.
The peppers didn’t do it. His body’s reaction to them is what did it.
Imagine eating a spicy food and, as time passes, your mouth all the way down to your stomach just stings more and more...
Boerhaave Syndrome
http://www.healthhype.com/boerhaave-syndrome-esophagus-rupture.html
Ghost peppers did not cause this, rather the vomiting and dry heaving did. I hate article titles like this.
Just put Drano on your burger, dork.
For years I have grown my own peppers and made fermented hot sauce at the end of the season. I used to grow 6 or eight plants and get a bit shy of a gallon of sauce. When the peppers were habanero and jalapeno it worked out about right. Two years ago I added a ghost pepper. That years sauce was pretty hot. Last year my sauce was about 50/50 Reaper and Habanero. I don’t need a garden anymore. At the current rate of consumption I have enough sauce to last ten years. This stuff is ONE DROP is TOO MUCH. I can guarantee if ONE slice of the peppers in that burger is Reaper That burger is not edible.
Since I was in the Army I have always put jalapeno slices in my salads. Fresh when I can get them. I had a Reaper pepper that was small, and ripe early and didn’t know what to do with it so I put a couple slices in a salad. Wow! I took everyone of those things out and it was still barely edible just because they had been there. I have never had any dish placed in front of me that I could not eat due to pepper, even in my first Thai restaurant when I told them, “Do your hottest.”
to be fair, the article did attribute the damage to the body reaction, not the peppers themselves.
I like serrano and thai peppers and use them generously when cooking and marinating. however for some reason the pickled jalapenos from the can cause me severe distress; not from the heat but from the pickling agent so I have leaned to avoid them. the blinding heat of ghost, scotch bonnet, habanero and suchlike are not for me.
I tell you, I love peppers, grew up on them, been eating them all my life, grew up not far from Hatch BEFORE it was famous. You just have no idea how friggin’ hot a reaper is. I am a small gummint guy and think we should all have a .50 cal Barret but I wonder if those damn things should be legal. LOL.
Ghost peppers, Carolina Reapers, and Trinidad Scorpions are all hot. I raise a few Ghost peppers, and have bought some of the Scorpion peppers. A little bit of those goes a long way....
A freeper sent me some ghost pepper seeds a few years ago and I raised one or two. They were hot but nothing like the Reaper. If a Ghost is an 2 KT atom bomb a Reaper is a 50 KT Hydrogen bomb. Words fail.
Meh.
Let him try some Carolina Reapers:
https://www.crazyhotseeds.com/top-10-worlds-hottest-peppers/
When his guts start leaking onto the floor, we’ll declare a winner...
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Massive BS!
Peppers don’t generate any heat, just a sensation of burning.
Hole was caused by surgical malpractice.
Hot peppers are the healthiest thing you can eat. They make your thick sticky blood flow freely.
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Jalapenos are comparatively mild, so is Tabasco sauce.
Try chopped up Habaneros in your omelets, and you’ll never go back to bland eggs again.
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all the way down to your stomach just stings more and more...
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It doesn’t stop there ...
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Yummy!
Serve it up!
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If you have a functioning stomach it stops there.
Stomach acid breaks capsaicin down.
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