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Man burns a hole in his throat after eating Bhut Jolokia chilly

  • Man eats burger smeared with ghost chilly aka Bhut Jolokia puree
  • Ends up with severe stomach ache and violent vomiting
  • Doctors find a 2.5cm tear in his oesophagus
  • Discharged from hospital after almost a month
bhut jolokia teaches man a painful lesson


Mostly, we all regret the following morning, after gorging on a spicy meal.  This guy, on the other hand, ended up with a hole in throat.
 

Yes, you read that right: A. HOLE. IN. HIS. FREAKING. THROAT
 

How did this happen?  Well, it all started when this American man in his late 40s, decided to eat a burger that was liberally smeared with the puree of ghost peppers, namely this dynamite, called the bhut jolokia.



 

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Unsurprisingly, he found himself in the hospital because of severe stomach pain and intense vomiting.  It was there that the doctors discovered a 2.5 cm gaping hole in his oesophagus.
 

However, oesophagus tear due to spicy food is few and far between. And when that does happen, a lucky few survive, as this man did. This condition, according to the Journal of Emergency Medicine is called the Boerhaave syndrome.

 

The man spent a month in hospital before eventually being discharged.

 

Also called as the ghost chilly, or pepper among others, the bhut jolokia was once a  Guinness  record holder in 2007 for being the spiciest chilly containing a Scoville heat of more than a million.

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