Have A Hot Pepper Lately?
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189927)
Boise, Idaho
July 12, 2018 8:38pm CST
Do you like hot peppers? If you figure that the jalapeno is typically under 10,000 on the Scoville heat scale, then the world's hottest, the Carolina Reaper, is an average 1.6 million on the scale. This pepper is gnarled and red in color with a small pointed tail. This spring a 30+ man complained of severe headaches several days after eating some of these peppers. Revealed in brain scan done on him showed several arteries in his brain had constricted. This lead to a diagnosis of RCV syndrome(reversible cerebral vasoconstriction). Can you believe it?
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13 responses
@dgobucks226 (37621)
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17 Jul 18
Thank goodness hot peppers never agreed with me. I'll stick to the milder ones I grow in my garden.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Jul 18
I am more into flavorful rather than spicy and hot.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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19 Jul 18
@celticeagle Fun fact- peppers have more vitamin C than an orange. Nice to know those bell peppers are so nutritious.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Jul 18
I love hot peppers, but I think that every person has a different way of accepting a certain food. i use mild hot peppers to fill with cheese and fry them so that the cheese melts. Some people love them, others cannot stand them.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Aug 18
I like the mild ones too. How can a person enjoy a dish if it is so hot? I sure can't.
@xstitcher (39048)
• Petaluma, California
13 Jul 18
Not a huge fan of heat in my food. 
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
13 Jul 18
Yes I do love hot peppers. It's one of my appetizers hehe
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Jul 18
I like the Greek type that aren't so hot.
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
13 Jul 18
I like to eat pepper. But I always limit the amount of pepper I eat. Otherwise, my mouth bubbles easily.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
13 Jul 18
So the pepper caused the constriction and the RCV or did it just reveal the RCV that had already been there?
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@wolfgirl569 (135881)
• Marion, Ohio
13 Jul 18
I dont like them but can believe it happening
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jul 18
I don't like them much to hot but now and then I do enjoy marinated jalapenos.
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@sw8sincere (6032)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
I don't love to eat hot peppers my friend.
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