Man Dies After Eating Extra Hot Chilis

I love and dread the chilli's.

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Chili by name, but fiery and red hot by nature...

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Wow! - the chili is small but mighty.

Wow...killer chilli!

On one hand, you of course need to feel sorry for the individual and his family.  On the other hand, it also seems to demonstrate a lack of good judgment.    Eating or drinking far beyond one's normal limits is simply not an intelligent thing to do, your body is not designed for that. 

Recently there was a case involving a radio station that had a content to see how much water a person could drink.  A woman with children drank a huge quantity of water and then died due to an electrolyte imbalance.

So, I think the bottom line is, if you are going to engage in stupid, potentially dangerous activities, you need to understand the possible consequences.

I did some chilli pepper contest with real peppers but after reading this article I will think twice before ate a hot pepper again. Poor guy he just wanted to prove he was man enough to mess with a hot pepper sauce.

Tesco is now stocking the Dorset Naga, the hottest chilli in the world. Is this wise?

I tasted only a small amount of this and suffered for ages so decided to NOT use it in any meals. I just admire the beauty of the small purple flowers and the bright orange globes adorning the vine along the fence.

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Just some super chillis I grew this summer. Only harmfull if the oils come in contact with your eyes or skin. Next year I'm just going with jalepeno and banana peppers since they have more use in my kitchen.

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I don't think it was simply the heat of the chillies that killed him. The scratching that his girlfriend reported suggests an allergic reaction.

"'We don't know what happened to him. Something has given him a cardiac arrest and we can only put it down to the chilli sauce.' "

Huh? Is there a proven connection between eating chilli sauce and heart attacks? I would have thought a more obvious suggestion would be "people have heart attacks". The two events are not necessarily related.

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these are not extra hot :)

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That's what happens when your not completely responsible and make contest that put lives in danger... RIP

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hot stuff..!

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Growing my own personal "kick". Go easy on the sauce!

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Remember everyone "a LITTLE bit" of what you fancy does you good.

In my opinion there is definately a link between the chillis he ate and the heart attack he suffered.

I recently discovered that I have a chilli allergy.  It seems I developed my allergy by eating increasingly hot curries over a sustained period of time (yep I was one of those guys who had to order the hottest food where ever I went).

About a year ago I started suffering from very prickly skin - mainly on my back, this would drive me to distraction when trying to sleep... a little while later the palpitations started, only occasionally but usually just when I was drifting off to sleep. At this point I had not linked my love of the fiery spice to these symptoms, so I visited my local health clinic where they ran a few tests to see if there were any problems with my heart, they said there were none, but still the palpitations continued.

It was only after I realised that these symptoms were particularly bad after a hot curry that the penny dropped. I've now not touched my favourite dish for over 6 months and the symptoms have completely gone. I fear if I hadn't realised what was happening and had ignored the signs, this could have happened to me. 

I have never heard before of a man dying of eating chilli peppers!!My picture above is of extremely hot peppers known as Scotch Bonnets. They are easily available here in Uganda. I would not recommend them unless you are experienced in trying out hot peppers unless you blend them with other spices, like make a sauce or a chutney.

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Capsaicin is found in Chilli.

This comes from Wikipedia:-

"Capsaicin is also the active ingredient in riot control and personal defense pepper spray chemical agents. When the spray comes in contact with skin, especially eyes or mucous membranes, it is very painful, and breathing small particles of it as it disperses can cause breathing difficulty, which serves to discourage assailants.

In large quantities, capsaicin can cause death.[18] Symptoms of overdose include difficulty breathing, blue skin, and convulsions. The large amount needed to kill an adult human and the low concentration of capsaicin in chilies make the risk of accidental poisoning by chili consumption negligible."

I think too much of anything is always bad. I must say I do do the odd Chilli dare but I always take a glass of milk with me. This news may make me be a bit more careful.

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