If you’ve eaten something spicy, you know that it can cause a little bit of coughing, but what you probably don’t know is that in extreme cases, a cough caused by eating spicy food can cause broken bones, an example of which is a woman A Chinese woman from Shanghai broke at least 4 ribs while coughing on spicy food because she was too skinny and had weak muscles.

The woman, surnamed Huang, told doctors in her city, Shanghai, that she was eating spicy food, which at some point made her begin to cough, and during a very tense cough, the young woman heard a sharp crackling sound from her chest area, and immediately began to feel pain when breathing and trying to speak, she added. “At first, I thought it was a stroke or something. I didn’t expect it to hurt me so much. I couldn’t even walk,” according to the website. timesnownews.

Ms. Hwang was able to get to a local hospital, where a CT scan showed that she had 4 broken ribs. After hearing the woman’s story about her coughing, the doctors ran a bone density test, which came normally. Upon examining the woman and conducting further tests, the thoracic surgeon concluded that the bone fractures It was caused by her weak muscles.

Your ribs can be clearly seen under your skin, the doctor told Huang. There is no muscle to support the bones, so it is easy for your ribs to break when you cough, adding that unless Huang does something about it, you will likely suffer similar fractures in the future.

While the young woman said that her height is 171 cm, and her weight is only 57 kg, and she admitted that her upper body is very thin, she now needs to rest and spend a month with a medical corset wrapped around her torso, but after that she plans to gain weight and increase her muscle mass.