Cenk Uygur
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Man Almost Dies After Eating Ghost Peppers
Posted
October 23, 2016
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97,490
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October 23, 2016
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4:53Now PlayingHow much damage can eating a ghost pepper do to your body? Kim Horcher, Francis Maxwell, and Alonzo Bodden, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“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.”
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Hosts: Kim Horcher, Francis Maxwell, Alonzo Bodden
Cast: Kim Horcher, Francis Maxwell, Alonzo Bodden
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