What to do if your hands hurt from the burning chili peppers

In daily life, everyone will encounter various experiences, but I don’t know if you have ever had the experience of getting your hands burned by the peppers when cutting them. When you are burned by spicy peppers, your hands will feel a burning pain, just like being burned by fire or scalded by boiling water. The pain is so severe that it will continue to hurt even if you put your hands in water immediately. So is there any good way to relieve the pain immediately? Let us learn about it together.

Solution:

1. Wash with vinegar, because vinegar can neutralize the spiciness of peppers. I heard that using white wine will be more effective

2. Apply toothpaste. It will make you feel more comfortable.

3. Wash your hands with cold water and a little salt, soak them for a while, and then air dry them.

4. Use aloe vera gel. Last time I was cutting chili peppers, and my hands were almost swollen from the spiciness. I applied the medicine and the pain went away in a few seconds.

How to avoid:

1. When cutting peppers, wash them and cut them open directly. As long as you don't touch the center of the pepper, it won't be spicy.

2. Cover your hands with a plastic bag or plastic wrap before cutting the pepper.

3. Apply a little oil on your hands before cutting vegetables, so that the spicy sauce will not directly contact your skin.

Steps/Methods:

1

You can soak your hands in hot water (???_??)? The reason why we feel pain from spicy food is because a substance called capsaicin secreted by peppers paralyzes our nerve endings. It is a kind of bioalkali. Although the solubility of bioalkali in water is not high, its solubility in hot water is often much greater than that in cold water. Therefore, you can soak your hands in hot water to dissolve most of the capsaicin on your hands and relieve the burning pain. It should be noted that after being injured by chili peppers, your hands will be very sensitive to hot water. It may be uncomfortable when you first soak them in hot water, but you must persist and soak them for a longer time, at least 15 minutes or more, to wash off the contaminated capsaicin. You cannot simply rinse your hands like you normally do. Use more hot water when soaking, rinse with hot water after soaking, and finally wipe your hands with a clean wet towel.

2

Rub with alcohol (???_??)? Capsaicin is a biological alkali, which is highly soluble in organic solvents. Therefore, you can use organic solvents to wash off the capsaicin on your hands. There are many organic solvents, and alcohol is the most common and commonly used one. You can repeatedly apply common disinfectant alcohol or edible alcohol. Note that you should apply along the direction of your fingertips. If there is no alcohol, you can also soak your hands in the white wine you drink every day to achieve the purpose of removing the spiciness. If you want better results, you can warm the white wine before soaking.

3

Vinegar can also be used to remove the spiciness (=′?`=). Capsaicin is an alkali, so according to the principle of acid-base neutralization, acid can also be used to wash off the capsaicin on your hands. Vinegar is indispensable in home life, but please note that ordinary white vinegar is best not to be used directly to wash hands. It can only be applied or diluted with water to soak hands, otherwise the high concentration of acetic acid will hurt your hands. You can add less water to aged vinegar. You can also mash sour fruits and apply them to your hands repeatedly to remove the spiciness, but the effect is not as direct and fast as acetic acid. Sour fruits such as sour lemons and sour carambolas are good at removing spiciness.