• Dharma Curious@startrek.website
      253·
      10 months ago

      I’m generally very uncomfortable around bathroom humor/topics, but i gotta know. Are people really suffering down there from spicy foods? I love spicy food. Like, it took many, many visits before i convinced the indian restaurant near us to give me genuinely spicy food. Now they make it like they make it for themselves.

      And don’t get me wrong, I’ve had the burning booty of death before, but the two things aren’t really linked. Like, spiciness has no impact on my bathrooming. I only ever get the burn down there if I’m sick. Is this seriously a problem people have when they so much as smell a bell pepper, as the internet has led me to believe?

      • Sekrayray@lemmy.world
        11·
        9 months ago

        It’s really weird, but as I’ve aged spicy food has really begun to bother me. I absolutely LOVE how it tastes in my mouth—even the hottest levels of heat are enjoyable to me.

        I’d say around the age of 25 it started bothering me some. Then it got worse as I approached 30. Now in my early 30s I can hardly eat anything that’s above “mild” without GI distress several hours later. I’m talking about a horrible burning sensation in my abdomen where it feels as though I can actually track the food moving through my GI tract. The next day I feel ill enough on the toilet that I have to make sure I don’t have plans for the first 1-2 hours of my day.

        It’s super sad because I love spicy food, but it’s not worth the payback. I myself work in healthcare and I’ve searched and searched for something that can physiologically explain that phenomenon (getting worse over the years) and there’s not really anything explained in the literature. All I can think of is something to do with changes in GI flora.

        • slaacaa@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yes, it’s an age thing. Even a few years ago I was impressing my asian colleagues with how much I can take, and regularly ate ghost chili and carolina reapers for fun with friends.

          Now at 35, had/have some problems down there, and the doctor told me to lay off spicy food, as I had a minor inflammation of my colon.

          Same conclusion as you, I love it, but it’s just not worth it. Good news though: I heard that it’s really just a tolerance building thing, so if I stay off really spicy foods for a while, then I should be able to enjoy light spices later.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah mine has gotten worse over time as well. When I was a teenager, I could eat anything. Now if I get a half scoop of the Chipotle hot salsa on my burrito, I’ll start feeling it 3 or 4 hours later. It sucks.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          9 months ago

          Because it’s so hard to believe that some people’s digestive systems work differently. Gut microflora is notoriously undiverse in humans. Surely the more likely explanation is that the person you’re responding to managed to go their whole life without ever eating spicy food despite actively seeking it out. /s

          Maybe there’s a spice level at which I’d get bad shits, but I haven’t gotten so much as a tingle yet and I already have the highest tolerance than any white guy I know. You can be a spice snob and say “you haven’t met my guy Rajesh yet”, but almost no-one saying “spice gives me bad shits” has met Rajesh either so I don’t see the point.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            9 months ago

            As I replied in another comment, do an “hot ones” evening going all the way up to 1m SHU and tell me your ass came out ok.

        • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          9 months ago

          Just made salsa last night.

          4 tomato 1 onion 1 bunch of cilantro 1 lime 6 Serrano 6 jalapeño 6 habanero Salt

          That’s about 1 habanero per small bowl. Most people wouldn’t eat a full habanero, or even taste that salsa.

          Never had an issue internally with spicy food.

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 months ago

        It has never happened to me and I’m a spice fiend too. I’ve never gotten diarrhea from Mexican food either.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          10 months ago

          My girlfriend felt the same way until we had a “Hot Ones” party where the spiciest sauce was 750 000 SHU. She went to the bathroom the next morning and I just heard “Ooooooooooooh”…

            • numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              50 hours sounds like that’s average for how long it takes for food items to be fully digested and completely excreted from the body under normal circumstances, but not necessarily an average minimum amount of time for how long it takes food to start exiting the body in feces.

              Those are very different data points, especially in the context of a discussion about spicy foods.

              Spicy hot foods are typically spicy because of a chemical called capsaicin, which is an irritant in mammals. In high enough amounts and/or in sensitive people, capsaicin can irritate the lining of the digestive system and that irritation can have a laxative-like effect to varying degrees. In response to irritation, digestive motility / speed will increase, and the general trend is that the quicker something moves through the digestive tract, the less completely it is processed and digested.

              Basically, if someone eats too much spicy food for their tolerance level, it is fairly typical for that to move through the digestive system more quickly than average AND the feces will contain proportionally more capsaicin. So, bowel movements less than 24 - 50 hours after eating the spicy food and a burning sensation associated with the act due to undigested capsaicin actually does make sense.

      • ngdev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        As someone who thinks the “Last Dab” sauces from Hot Ones aren’t spicy enough, no. Your body adapts. I only burn my hole if I eat something that’s too salty now.

  • avater@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 months ago

    Good, hot food has to burn thrice: During eating, when you are on the toilet and also in the eyes of the canalworker in the end.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      8·
      9 months ago

      Because spicyness isn’t really a taste, it’s rather just pain. The various spicy chemicals (capsaicin, piperine, curcumin etc.) essentially just irritate your skin.

      • Siethron@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Taste? Kinda bland, unless it’s spicy, you don’t have smell receptors at the asshole so the disgusting part doesn’t register.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        46·
        10 months ago

        I thought it was about a spicy bottom after spices go out the bottom. Bidets fix that problem.

          • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
            34·
            10 months ago

            Ooh no, don’t do that.

            After you finish evacuation(as near as you can tell), you wash off the mess using the bidet.

            Since you haven’t just smeared the mess around and into your skin with some paper, there’s no lingering burn.

              • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
                35·
                10 months ago

                Capsaicin doesn’t really affect your intestines, it’s more of a skin irritant.

                So just wash off your skin as soon as it’s dirty, no burns.

                This is from direct experience, i highly recommend anyone who likes spicy food(and everyone else) to get some sort of bidet rather than smearing waste on themselves with toilet paper.

                • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
                  31·
                  9 months ago

                  Dude, I’ve got a bidet, eat spicy enough and it burns AS IT’S COMING OUT, there’s no escaping it!

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        9 months ago

        Ditto, I don’t want to touch none of that mess down there.

        All I can think when I visit a country that doesn’t use bidets regularly is that all these people using their hands for everything were very recently groping around near the wrong end of themselves.

  • zanyllama52@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I regularly eat spicy food, with rare issues in the bathroom. The exception, funny enough, seems to be pickled jalapeños. Not ghost peppers, habañeros, or Carolina reapers… I don’t get it.