About 40 students at Milton-Union Middle School in West Milton, Ohio, received medical treatment and five were hospitalized after ingesting Bhut Jolokia peppers – one of the hottest species in the world.
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Medics from Union Township and Pleasant Hill and other local first responders were dispatched to the middle school around 1 p.m.
Five students were hospitalised and another 35 were treated for symptoms ranging from blotchy skin to hives, sweating and blurred vision. Ritchey said students had varying reaction times and symptoms based on the level of exposure.
“Kids will be kids, and sometimes they do challenges and dare each other to do things”, Bucaro said. “Their reactions varied. Some just had their eyes water, others were generally pretty uncomfortable”.
According to the 9-1-1 caller from the school, one 13-year-old boy broke out in a rash and had trouble seeing, while two other students were vomiting. Ritchey declined to note how many children were affected or where they were transported, according to the Troy Daily News.
The school on Milton-Potsdam Road immediately called the police and emergency crews.
In a separate incident in IN, more than two dozen Middle School children were sickened after eating the Carolina Reaper pepper. “We are still in the process of figuring that out”, he said.
“It was definitely a disruption, and school disruptions are in our school code of conduct”, Ritchey said, adding the district is assessing what to do with the responsible students.
A report from New Castle, Ind., reported a similar incident on Thursday.
School authorities have found the student who carried the peppers to school, but so far they haven’t taken any decision about what’s to be done in the case.
Previous year a video of a schoolboy swallowing a piece of a Ghost Pepper after being challenged by friends went viral.
It has a Scoville rating of over one million units – more than 100 times stronger than Tabasco sauce and Jalapeno peppers.
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According to the New York Post, a ghost pepper rates at 855,000 to 1,041,427 Scoville heat units, which is 107 to 417 times hotter than a jalapeño and 10 times hotter than a habañero.
