[CH] chiles and kidney problems

Rain (rain@wwbbs.otherside.com)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 20:33:39 GMT

I just had lunch with a chilehead friend at a good little Vietnamese
place, and noticed he was pretty much staying away from the heat
except for a little sriracha on some excellent crab rangoon (that's a
heavenly combo, by the way).  This surprised me, so I asked  what was
up.  He is having to avoid much in the way of hot stuff now, he says;
he's diabetic and has been through nephritis three times, but even when
he's well, he says he now gets a very unpleasant burning sensation deep
in his back, right at kidney level, when he eats much hot stuff.
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Anybody know if this is in fact likely to be kidney pain, or ever heard
of someone (diabetes/hx. of nephritis or not) getting kidney pain
from chiles?  We aren't talking eating Savinas like candy here; he likes
to mix up a fairly hot sauce out of a combo of Dave's and something
milder but tastier, and use it fairly generously, but he's never been
really over-the-top in his chileheadedness. 
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Anyway, I told him I'd ask.  (He may be subscribing here soon, too.)
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Keep on rockin',
Rain
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