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A woman up in hospital after eating a large amount of the spicy condiment wasabi by mistake. The 60-year-old woman was a wedding reception in Israel. She mistakenly around a teaspoon of the spicy green paste, believing it to an avocado-based dip. Her taste buds the shock of their lives when the spices in the wasabi working on her tongue and nose. The woman that within minutes she felt pressure in her chest and tingling all over her arms. She to hospital the following day, where she was with "broken-heart syndrome". This is a term for symptoms that similar to a heart attack following physical or emotional distress.

Doctors said the woman was with a condition known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which typically older women. It is also "broken-heart syndrome". The heart's main pumping chamber weakens and a "temporary disruption" so that it cannot blood properly. It is usually on by life-altering and shocking events such as financial troubles, serious traffic accidents or bad news. The syndrome is not as serious as a real heart attack. Most patients fully within a month. Doctors said: "To the best of our knowledge, this the first report of takotsubo cardiomyopathy by wasabi consumption." They sushi lovers that wasabi is not dangerous.

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