Red hot chili challenge: US teens hospitalized after consuming world’s hottest peppers 🌶

The hot pepper challenge craze appears to be spreading in the US after scores of students received treatment following separate incidents where they consumed the world’s hottest peppers.

Forty Middle School students in Ohio were treated by emergency crews after consuming one of the world’s hottest peppers – the Bhut Jolokia, often referred to as the “Ghost Pepper.”

The school goers, aged between 11 and 14, ate the peppers during lunch period at Milton-Union Middle School on Friday, according to the Dayton Daily News.

An investigation is ongoing to establish where the hot chili peppers came from, but police say all of the students voluntarily ingested the peppers.

Terrible idea eating that ghost pepper
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Five students were taken to hospital for treatment. Superintendent Brad Ritchey of Milton-Union Exempted Village Schools said the reactions varied from blotchy skin, hives, to tearing of eyes, sweating and general discomfort. Other students reported having problems seeing and vomiting.

Cody Schmidt, an eighth-grader at the school, told the Dayton Daily News he tried one of the peppers and it was in fact “really hot.”“We all drank like 10 cartons of milk,” Schmidt said.

School staff have identified the student who distributed the peppers and are now looking into whether to pursue disciplinary action.

The Scoville scale is a measurement of the heat level of chili peppers. A jalapeno pepper ranges just between 1,000 and 20,000 Scoville units. The Bhut Jolokia, on the other hand, has a Scoville rating of over 1 million units. It was once considered the world’s hottest pepper but was knocked off the top spot in 2013 by the Carolina Reaper, which measures a daunting 1.57 million Scoville units.

In a separate incident in Indiana, more than two dozen Middle School children were sickened after eating the Carolina Reaper pepper.

"We had a student whose father grows these Carolina Reaper peppers, and he brought several of them to school and passed it around during lunch," New Castle Middle School principal Jaci Hadsell told ABC News.

The students reported burning sensations in their mouths and faces, but no one was hospitalized.

The hot pepper challenge was reignited recently by two girls in New Jersey who posted a video of themselves in agony after trying to eat a Carolina Reaper. The viral video clocked up more than 2.8 million views.

The fire-breathing craze previously emerged a few years back with a number of chili daredevils posting videos online of them tackling the hot stuff.

Last year a video of a schoolboy swallowing a piece of a Ghost Pepper after being challenged by friends went viral. In the footage, the child began screaming in response to the intense burning sensation.

One man who has proved he is capable of feeling the burn is New Yorker Wayne Algenio, who broke the Guinness Book of Records earlier this year after he consumed an incredible 22 Carolina Reaper peppers in 60 seconds.

Do not, we repeat do not, try this at home.

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For once, I'm relieved. At least they weren't shoving it into orifices other than the mouth

young people process info differently now however they are still

young, dumb,and can not see around corners...i guess its '' you chose

the behavior ,you chose the consequences'' as always.....

Further proving the irrelevance and futility of mothers asking "if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"

Ugh.. I would like to believe parents STILL talk that way to their kids. But, I don't.

I see, parents too, self absorbed, or too insecure, & concerned with being liked & trying to be their child's friend instead of a parent. And treating them as if they capable of making adult choices.
And letting schools & society take over.

COULD NOT AGREE WITH MORE SASSY.

By the way the key to keeping down a habanero is chase it with Quervo not milk. grew them in my younger days before I quit drinking.

Spent half my life in the West-indies!
Was very cautious of those things!
Homer Simpson didn't even got away with it!

High 5, to the kids with backbone enough
to finish the challenge.


Okay...
Before I get hammered on for "being mean"....


Most of us, including myself, did stupid and
even dangerous stuff in our younger years,
as 'Rites of Passage'.


There just might be some hope,
for the "Wussy Generation".

There just might be some hope,
for the "Wussy Generation".

I think, they are screwed
& will complain & protest each other until they kill each other... with peppers 🌶

Maybe if Ilhan Omar with two husbands one of which is her brother to obtain citizenship can maintain her newly elected status can make a law to ban these peppers.

Glad you liked that.

I did thread on her & her convoluted thinking. She brings a whole new meaning to " Twister Sister"

Bungy On Fire!

????

those peppers usually burn you on both ends!