that eating spicy food could break your ribs!
but it can and in fact did, the lady surnamed Huang, told doctors in her native city of
Shanghai that she was eating spicy food which caused her to
start coughing, during which the young woman allegedly
heard a sharp crack from her chest area, and immediately began to experience
pain when breathing and trying to speak, “At first, I thought it was a stroke or something, I didn’t
expect it to hurt this badly,” Huang said. “I couldn’t even walk.” Ms. Huang
managed to get to a local hospital, where a CT scan revealed that she had four
fractured ribs. After hearing the woman’s story about her coughing, doctors
conducted a bone density test that came out normal. Upon examining the woman
and conducting more tests, a thoracic surgeon concluded that the bone fractures had been caused by her poor
musculature, “Your ribs can be seen clearly under your skin. There is no muscle
to support the bone, so it’s easy for your ribs to get fractured when
coughing,” the doctor reportedly told Huang, where the original story is, adding that unless she does something about it,
she is likely to suffer similar fractures in the future, Ms. Huang said that she stands 171cm tall and weighs 51kg, but
admitted to having an extremely thin upper body, She now needs to rest and
spend a month with a medicinal corset wrapped around her torso, spicy food + cough = broken ribs, who would have thought it?
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