I'm not at all surprised to hear this. I've believed for a long time that, in part, love of spicy food is genetic. There have been debates on the topic on here before. Lots of members disagree completely.
Glad your sister is doing better and I wish her all the best.
I do a lot of drying and vacuum sealing with the herbs I grow and i'm about to venture into extracting the essential oil out of some of them. Anyone done this before??
You just gotta try and think about what will matter in the grand scheme of things and what wont. We as humans turn petty, insignificant things into huge issues..
I don't think that eating spicy foods would cause you to break out. I do think it's possible that capsacian based topical creams could even help. What do you put on the outbreaks usually?