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Bhut jolokia's burn: Man eats world's hottest chilli to win bet, ends up with a hole in his throat
A 47-year-old man who thought it would be cool to chew down some Bhut jolokia, world's hottest chilli, in a contest ended up with a burned hole in his food pipe.
Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, is the hottest chilli peppers in the world. It is twice as hot as Mexican red savina, the second fieriest pepper. It is twice as strong as habanero pepper, and three times as spicier than cayenne.
As per Scoville scale, the unit used to measure spicy heat of chilli peppers, Bhut jolokia measures 1,041,427 units.
And a 47-year-old man thought it would be cool to take part in a contest and chew down a hamburger stuffed with this ghostly-hot Bhut Jolokia.
What happened to him?
He was reduced to severe abdominal pain, chest pain, unstoppable vomiting, and had a hole in his food pipe. Yes, that's the power of Bhut jolokia. It burnt a 2-and-a-half centimeter hole in his oesophagus.
Suffering from this condition called Boerhaave syndrome, which is caused by excessive vomiting, the man had to undergo emergency surgery, and was forced spend nearly a month in hospital.
The Bhut jolokia, on the other hand, had come with its fair warning: "This case serves as an important reminder of a potentially life-threatening surgical emergency initially interpreted as discomfort after a large spicy meal."
A 47-year-old man who thought it would be cool to chew down some Bhut jolokia, world's hottest chilli, in a contest ended up with a burned hole in his food pipe.
Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, is the hottest chilli peppers in the world. It is twice as hot as Mexican red savina, the second fieriest pepper. It is twice as strong as habanero pepper, and three times as spicier than cayenne.
As per Scoville scale, the unit used to measure spicy heat of chilli peppers, Bhut jolokia measures 1,041,427 units.
And a 47-year-old man thought it would be cool to take part in a contest and chew down a hamburger stuffed with this ghostly-hot Bhut Jolokia.
What happened to him?
He was reduced to severe abdominal pain, chest pain, unstoppable vomiting, and had a hole in his food pipe. Yes, that's the power of Bhut jolokia. It burnt a 2-and-a-half centimeter hole in his oesophagus.
Suffering from this condition called Boerhaave syndrome, which is caused by excessive vomiting, the man had to undergo emergency surgery, and was forced spend nearly a month in hospital.
The Bhut jolokia, on the other hand, had come with its fair warning: "This case serves as an important reminder of a potentially life-threatening surgical emergency initially interpreted as discomfort after a large spicy meal."
