Posted on 10/17/2016 10:14:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The ghost pepper is one of the worlds hottest peppers, with a Scoville rating of more than a million. So it might follow that you shouldnt ingest it in more than tiny quantities.
And yet, the Journal of Emergency Medicine reports on the unusual case of a man who tore a hole in his esophagus after eating an incredibly hot ghost pepper.
The 47-year-old American ate a burger topped with a ghost pepper puree as part of an eating contest. YouTube is rife with video of people eating these things, so you can probably guess how this one went: The man started vomiting, profusely.
He threw up so much, in fact, that he caused a tear to form in his esophagusa rare condition known as Boerhaave syndrome. The condition has a high mortality rate, notes stuff.co.nz.
When his pain continued to get worse, the man called emergency responders. Eagle-eyed doctors were able to diagnose the tear, and the mans life was saved with emergency surgery.
He spent 23 days in the hospital recovering from the incidentthe costs of which we can safely assume far outweighed whatever the prize was in the eating contest.
While this particular case had a terrifying complication, the authors of the study note that normally, ghost peppers cause no significant adverse effects. (If you dont overdo it, chili peppers might actually lengthen your life.)
I have several dozen Jigsaw plants, and they are loaded with peppers. Yum.
Probably didn’t do the ol’ rectum any good on the way out, either.
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Guy was diagnosed with AIDS and his Dr told him to go home and put all the pepper, peppers, beans etc in a blender and drink it.
“Will this cure AIDS?”
“NO!! but it will give you an idea of what your Ahole is for”.
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.
” I guess ur ahole can get calloused “
LOL. But why would you want that?
Could that same response be triggered by news photos of "President Hillary"?
She must step down now for the sake of the nation.
I understood from the story that the violent vomiting caused the tear in his esophagus.
An indirect cause. He wouldn't have vomited (and torn his esophagus) if he hadn't eaten the ghost pepper.
But then, the headline "Vomiting Puts Hole in Man's Esophagus" maybe wouldn't have drawn as much attention? :-)
Happened to me once. There's a great little wing place called Cluck-U Chicken. Their hottest wings are called "911 wings". They make you sign a waiver to order them. Holy moly! My Son-in-Law and I ordered a couple dozen once. Painful going in, and out the next day, if you know what I mean...
reading more then the headline would produce the cause of the tear: vomiting
I had some ghost pepper salsa one time. Very tasty and surprisingly not as hot as I expected. The flavor from these peppers is very good.
After that, however, I tried some ghost pepper hot sauce. Man, that hurt. Good thing I had a bottle of water in hand.
Yeah I meant 10x hotter than my birds eye... They are supposed to be 100,000 to 225,000 according to the chart somebody linked earlier... I am guessing that is about the actual range of mine, between the mildest and hottest, seems like there is that much difference in them, sometime 1 seems like I put 3 in there...
We do have a favorite hot recipe called Smokey Scallops made with Tequila and habaneros. Tried doing it with Ghost peppers once and the wife could barely eat it. It was exquisitely hot. With habaneros, just spicy.
Either you wife truly loves you,
..or she is your beneficiary
in both cases, it's a win-win ! Congratulations !
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