Rain wrote: > 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. > x > 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. > x > Anyway, I told him I'd ask. (He may be subscribing here soon, too.) > x I am a diabetic and a chilehead. I like a little heat in most anything. But, I'm in it more for the flavour than for the heat. Maybe I'm fortunate in that I have never had a problem with "ring of fire" or any other after effects even after doing phet-phet Thai food. I hope your friend comes out of his problem. But, I suspect that it has more to do with his nephritis than with his diabetes. ENJOY!!!