An Illinois man claims that a hot sauce he sampled while on vacation last year which caused him to fall to the ground in a seizure may have saved his life . Randy Schmitz , 30 , of Orland Park , Illinois , was sampling the Flashbang hot sauce at Pepper Palace in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina , when started having convulsions . When he was given medical treatment , an MRI scan of his brain showed a cancerous tumor in its early stages . Randy Schmitz , 30 , was sampling a hot sauce made of scorpion and habanero peppers at the Pepper Palace in Myrtle Beach when he had a seizure . During a post-seizure brain scan , doctors noticed a cancerous brain tumor in its early stages . Schmitz flew home early from his vacation and had the tumor removed two days later . 'If I did n't try that , I think something eventually would have triggered the seizure and I would 've found out , but that cancer tumor would 've grown in my head , ' Schmitz told the Chicago Tribune . Flashbang hot sauce contains Carolina reaper , scorpion and habanero peppers . Customers have to sign a waiver before tasting it . After the seizure , the special education job coach flew home early from his family vacation and underwent brain surgery two days later . Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital removed a two-and-a-half-inch by one-and-a-half-inch malignant tumor from Schmitz 's frontal lobe . After Schmitz had the tumor removed , he was treated with radiation , and he has home more month of chemotherapy treatment . Jeffrey Raizer , medical director of neuro-oncology at Northwestern Medical Hospital , said that though it ca n't be proven that the hot sauce triggered the seizure , the tasting conditions , including dehydration and stress , match those known to lead to seizures . 'If you have a lot of hot sauce and you 're sweating a lot , people can have dehydration and it can cause seizures , ' Raizer told the Tribune . 'If you eat a habanero pepper , it 's a big jolt to your system . ' Raizer added that the seizure allowed Schmitz to be treated with surgery , radiation and chemotherapy before the tumor got worse . He has completed his radiation treatments and has one more month of chemotherapy treatment . He got married two weeks after his diagnosis . Schmitz was so grateful that the tumor was spotted that he wrote a letter to Pepper Palace saying , 'Your Flashbang Pepper Sauce SAVED MY LIFE ! ! ! ' Schmitz was diagnosed with the brain tumor just weeks before he was set to get married to his wife . Despite his surgery and treatments , he and his wife still walked down the aisle on time . Schmitz was so grateful that he wrote Pepper Palace in January to thank the company for its involvement in his seizure . 'Your Flashbang Pepper Sauce SAVED MY LIFE ! ! ! ! ' he wrote in an email to the company . Pepper Palace posted his email on their website , along with the response : 'Way to go , Randy , you are truly a Wall of Flame survivor ! ' Schmitz was sent a box of hot sauce , T-shirts , golf balls and other souvenirs from the store . He admits , however , he 's still ' a little bit nervous ' to open the bottle of Flashbang .
Randy ##er , 30 , was sampling the hot hot sauce at the Pepper Palace in Myrtle Beach , color Carolina when he had a seizure . Customers have to sign a waiver before tasting the hot sauce . A post - seizure MRI ##psy showed a cancerous tumor in its early stages . The tumor was removed and Schmitz has completed his radiation treatments and has one more month of chemotherapy treatment .