The hot pepper linked to teen’s death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

  • Perhaps something like “this food may cause severe gastrointestinal distress or internal bleeding, which may contribute to pulmonary distress, which in some cases may lead to heart attack, stroke, or death.”

    • @wahming
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      61 year ago

      There’s currently no reason to think any of that happened. Cause of death - unknown.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        Is this one of those same anti-science, know-nothing takes like those that were too dumb to understand how COVID positive patients that died of heart attacks were legitimate counted as dying from COVID?

        Have you ever eaten anything spicy? Did it not provoke an instantaneous physiological response? Sweating? Urinary urgency? Tachycardia? Tachypnea? Erythema?

        Capsaicin is neurotoxic, a sufficient dose will kill you. In a sensitive person, or person with pre-existing conditions, a hot chip can definitely be the thing that overwhelms a person. Maybe the chip was the straw that broke the camel’s back, in law and medicine, that’s causal.

        • @wahming
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          71 year ago

          Drop the ad hominem attacks.

          a sufficient dose will kill you

          Yes, a sufficient dose of anything generally does. What’s your point? The fact that millions of other people eat spicy foods at these levels and survive would indicate that no, this is not about the dose in general.

          Have you ever eaten anything spicy?

          I’m Asian. We inhale spicy food. No, I don’t recall Asians dying of eating something spicy. If they were sensitive (read: allergic), that’s on them to know their own allergies. We don’t blame peanut butter because people die after eating it.

        • @PickTheStick@lemmy.world
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          o.O You had to scientifically blather about every other condition, but couldn’t use diaphoresis? For shame, little dude.