This case study has been published in BMJ Case Reports. Coming in second place is Dragon's Breath with alleged 2.48 million.Īlthough chillies can have a bunch of health benefits, the record-breaking ones might be best left alone, unless you want to become a weird medical case. The hottest currently is called Pepper X, with an unverified Scoville score of 3.18 million. In 2016, another paper was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine showing that a post-Ghost-Pepper vomit caused a man to tear a 2.5 cm (1 inch) hole in his esophagus.īut even though they're certainly up there in insanity, the Carolina Reaper and Ghost Pepper aren't even the world's hottest chillies. "When we were looking at the literature we found a couple of cases similar to our case," one of the researchers, Kulothungan Gunasekaran of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, told The Guardian. What's interesting is this isn't even the first time chilli peppers have caused these kinds of problems. "Given the development of symptoms immediately after exposure to a known vasoactive substance, it is plausible that our patient had RCVS secondary to the 'Carolina Reaper'," the researchers concluded. The doctors now think that the chillies were to blame. This can sometimes happen by medications or drugs, but a urine test revealed the patient's system was completely clean. This condition is known as reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS), and was most likely causing the thunderclap headaches.
When the doctors did tests on the patient, including an MRI and CT scan, everything appeared normal.īut they did discover that a few blood vessels in the brain had changed – sections of his internal, middle and posterior cerebral arteries had all narrowed. "The pain was excruciating and thus he came to the ER."Ī thunderclap headache is a very severe headache that lasts a short amount of time – usually seconds or minutes of intense pain. "During the next few days, on at least two occasions and in retrospect he thought probably more often, he experienced brief intense thunderclap headaches lasting seconds," wrote the researchers from the Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown NY. He developed neck and head pain after ingesting the chilli, and then the headaches began. He had no further thunderclap headaches.According to a new case study in The British Medical Journal, a 34-year-old man from New York did just that during a hot pepper eating contest - and ended up in hospital. Five weeks later, another CT scan showed that his brain arteries had returned to normal. The man's symptoms improved without any specific treatment. But "we would recommend the general public be cautious about these adverse effects" and seek medical attention immediately if they develop sudden headaches after eating hot peppers, Gunasekaran told Live Science. Gunasekaran said that he and his colleagues would not necessarily tell people to avoid Carolina Reaper peppers. Kulothungan Gunasekaran, an internal medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, who treated the patient.
This is the first time that doctors have reported a link between eating chili peppers and RCVS, said study co-author Dr. In this man's case, the RCVS could have been due to eating the Carolina Reaper, the report said.
In some cases, however, doctors never determine the cause of RCVS. Mike attempted this record in London, Ontario, Canada, on 21 November 2020. A Canadian man with a love for spicy food broke a Guinness World Record by eating three Carolina reaper chili peppers - the hottest chili peppers in the world - in under 10 seconds. The Canadian broke the record for the fastest time to eat three Carolina Reaper chillies, with a time of 9.72 seconds, bringing the record under 10 seconds for the first time ever. Sometimes, this condition can occur as a reaction to certain prescription drugs, or to illegal drugs such as cocaine or ecstasy. Mike Jack, a talented chilli eater and multiple world record holder, has set an extremely spicy record that hasn’t been broken for six years. In cases of RCVS, a person's brain arteries temporarily narrow, but this goes away within days to weeks.
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