Are hot peppers medically dangerous?

[mynah]

You ate two habaneros at home? You've got to be crazy! For all that pain I would have demanded performing before a huge audience at least...

[pamela]

i am crazy! it wasnt that long ago either...you may have just assumed i was an idiot kid, just an idiot mom, showing off for her sons while my parents were visiting. Believe it or not, those boys wanted to try it too. I gave them a speck and that was it. And that was all they needed. But i rock in their eyes now, ALPHA MOM!

[mynah]

I was wrong - that's a great audience to have!

[pamela]

well, maybe the boys, but my mom was sure as hell mad at me after the initial fear subsided

[Moontanman]

I love hot spicy food, habaneros are pretty spicy, i used to eat them to impress my sons. They thought they could do anything dad could do, good thing they didn't see me go to my room and cry ! Too many and I get uncontrolled hiccups, I did grow some little purple peppers that once broken open i couldn't even hold them in my hands much less eat them. they left red burning marks any where you touched them. I went back and read the seed case and it said they were ornamentals only. Ok guys, and ladies, if you have eaten to many peppers and thinking you have eaten hell and you can't get out, just drink milk! Milk takes the heat away almost immediately, I prefer peepers for their taste, many very hot peppers do not taste very good, habeneros and jalapeños are very good and make great hot sauces and hot vinegars, I love collards soaked in habanero vinegar.

[pamela]

yeah, i got ornamental pepper residue in my eyes- talk about a screaming 12 year old girl- like to thought i was going blind!
Milk? will soy milk work? i shudder at the udder thought of drinking that cow juice

[Moontanman]

I've never tried to use bean juice for that, it gags me so the cure might be worse that the disease but cow juice works very well.

[freeztar]

I tried milk after eating half of a homegrown habanero. Actually, I tried everything in the kitchen! Milk, butter, ketchup, baking soda, flour, and all kinds of other whacky ideas. (it's amazing what you'll do when you have a habanero burn )

The one thing that I found that worked was an ice cube on the tongue. That took away most of the burn, but only as long as the ice cube lasted. I had to suck on ice cubes for about 4 hours. I know that water is supposed to be bad (spreads the capsaicin), but the ice worked well for me.

I know other people that swear by milk. Perhaps it's just a matter of personal chemistry or...

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by freeztar

I tried milk after eating half of a homegrown habanero. Actually, I tried everything in the kitchen! Milk, butter, ketchup, baking soda, flour, and all kinds of other whacky ideas. (it's amazing what you'll do when you have a habanero burn )

The one thing that I found that worked was an ice cube on the tongue. That took away most of the burn, but only as long as the ice cube lasted. I had to suck on ice cubes for about 4 hours. I know that water is supposed to be bad (spreads the capsaicin), but the ice worked well for me.

I know other people that swear by milk. Perhaps it's just a matter of personal chemistry or...

You need to build up your tolerance to be able to tackle habaneros. This could take months of eating hot chillies every day.
You could try telling your body that you are not dying and mentally " drop into" the pain and enjoy it. Just tell your head that pain is fun!!

[InfiniteNow]

Milk is too runny. Get a dairy product which will stick to your tongue and coat it better... like sour cream, or better yet... yogurt.