(16 May 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Worcester, Massachusetts – 8 September 2023
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1. Various of vigil for a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge
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Needham, Massachusetts – 16 May 2024
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. James Udelson, Chief of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center:
"From the little information that was provided, it sounded like he had one or perhaps two types of underlying heart problems. One is an enlarged heart, which might be a dilated heart that is not functioning well, or it might be a thickened heart, you know, which is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is actually a cause of sudden death in young athletes. He also was said to have what’s … what was referred to as a myocardial bridge. And that refers to when one of the main arteries of the heart, some segment of it, tunnels into the heart muscle. And so with high activity it can be squeezed and blood flow to part of the heart muscle can be diminished, setting up the possibility of a severe rhythm problem. So, you know that’s … it might have been that one or both of those predisposed this person to a severe heart rhythm problem that may have been the fatal event."
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ARCHIVE: Boston – 7 September 2023
3. Still, various of Paqui One Chip Challenge chip displayed
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Needham, Massachusetts – 16 May 2024
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. James Udelson, Chief of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center:
"That one’s … that one’s a little hard to know. At low doses, capsaicin, which is I think the compound chile is … has some … actually, it’s been reported of some favorable properties in reducing inflammation and some heart-risk factors. But, you know, it varies. But in very high doses, which perhaps, you know, were ingested here, it’s been said to cause heart blood flow problems. So, it may have been, you know, in sudden very high doses – with an underlying heart problem that may not have been known – that the two of those may have combined to cause severe rhythm problems."
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ARCHIVE: Worcester, Massachusetts – 8 September 2023
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5. Vigil for the teen who died after eating a spicy chip
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Needham, Massachusetts – 16 May 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. James Udelson, Chief of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center:
"You know, it’s it’s pretty easy not to know because many, many of these … both of those types of heart problems can exist without causing any symptoms until either later in life or when you faint from a rhythm problem. So, it’s … that’s … that’s not unusual given people walk around who have these things who don’t know that."
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ARCHIVE: Worcester, Massachusetts – 8 September 2023
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6. Pan of relatives at the vigil for the teen who died after eating a spicy chip
STORYLINE:
An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says he died from ingesting a large quantity of chile pepper extract.
The report also notes that 14-year-old Harris Wolobah had a congenital heart defect.
Harris died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the Paqui chip.
The autopsy lists the cause of death as cardiopulmonary arrest “in the setting of recent ingestion of food substance with high capsaicin concentration.”
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