Hot Pepper Danger- Soleil

  

   What if food that was spicy had negative affects? Well a 34- year old man (not identified) experienced a series of intense headaches and dry heaving after eating a Carolina Reaper, reportedly the hottest pepper in the world, during the contest in New York. This man developed excruciating pain in his head and neck, prompting him to go to an emergency room, as "The patient ate the pepper and immediately starting having a severe headache that started in the back of the head and spread all over within two seconds," said a doctor, who is the internal medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. "Because he could not tolerate the headache, they sent him to the ER," he also added. When the patient arrived at the hospital, physicians were not positive what had caused his symptoms. XRAY imaging also ruled out a blood clot or bleeding in one of the large blood vessels supplying the brain. But an angiogram of his  brain's blood vessels showed something strange: "a substantial narrowing of the left internal carotid artery and four other blood vessels supplying the brain." "Then CT angiography was done, which showed narrowing of the blood vessels in the brain," Gunasekaran said. "You could see the beaded appearance [of the arteries], and the yellow arrows point to the narrowing of the blood vessels." Gunasekaran and Dr. Gregory Cummings, the neurologist on the case, eventually diagnosed the man with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. It is normally associated with certain medications, such as ergotamine or triptans, and illicit drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamines -- not peppers. Severe cases can even be life-threatening, according to Ducros. "A proportion of patients will have a severe form with strokes, and they can get either an intracranial hemorrhage of an ischemic stroke," Ducros said. "But the mortality is low, around 2% ... and most patients who die from RCVS are young women and often in the postpartum state. "But most of them will do well with only recurrent headaches, and then they have a total recovery," she added. Treatment for RCVS typically consists of removal of the offending substance and supportive care such as pain management, she said. The authors of the report advise that RCVS should be considered for patients who experience intense headaches after eating hot peppers, cayenne pepper or any other substance containing high amounts of capsaicin. "It's important to think about RCVS if you get a very severe and instantaneous headache," Ducros said. "But, unfortunately, this condition is still not widely known, luckily medicine is being made and we are discovering how to help him, and others following in his steps." 
  This relates to US history, because it shows the "Domino Theory" in a way where, this man ate the peppers at a contest, then another, and surely all of them were suspected to also follow him, but in fact this was proven wrong after this deadly study. I feel bad for him and the people in which he was involved with, and I hope that a cure is found soon.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/health/hot-pepper-carolina-reaper-rcvs-study/index.html