It may have been surpassed as the hottest chili in the world, but the notorious ghost pepper showed it still packs a powerful punch after forcing a man to undergo emergency surgery to repair an inch wide hole in his esophagus.
The 47 year old American was taking part in an eating contest at a restaurant in the San Francisco area, where he consumed the ghost pepper, or bhut jolokia, as a puree on a burger. While he completed the challenge, he immediately felt intense burning in his mouth. After six glasses of water failed to quell the effects, he started vomiting so violently that it tore the hole in the canal connecting the throat to the stomach.
When his condition failed to improve upon initial treatment at the emergency department at the University of California at San Francisco, the patient was rushed into surgery where it was also discovered that his left lung had collapsed. Fortunate merely to survive, the man was forced to spend 23 days in the hospital before being released with a gastric tube in place.
Read more here: http://www.ibtimes.com/can-chili-pep...pepper-2433243
Hosts: Kim Horcher, Francis Maxwell, Alonzo Bodden
The 47 year old American was taking part in an eating contest at a restaurant in the San Francisco area, where he consumed the ghost pepper, or bhut jolokia, as a puree on a burger. While he completed the challenge, he immediately felt intense burning in his mouth. After six glasses of water failed to quell the effects, he started vomiting so violently that it tore the hole in the canal connecting the throat to the stomach.
When his condition failed to improve upon initial treatment at the emergency department at the University of California at San Francisco, the patient was rushed into surgery where it was also discovered that his left lung had collapsed. Fortunate merely to survive, the man was forced to spend 23 days in the hospital before being released with a gastric tube in place.
Read more here: http://www.ibtimes.com/can-chili-pep...pepper-2433243
Hosts: Kim Horcher, Francis Maxwell, Alonzo Bodden
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