What should I do if my hands are burned by spicy food?

There are many types of peppers, and many red peppers are quite spicy. It is best to wear gloves when handling peppers, especially if there are wounds on the skin. Do not touch the peppers directly. Otherwise, it will cause very uncomfortable spicy and painful symptoms on the skin. At this time, everyone will think of washing with water, but the effect may not be very good. In fact, there are the following quick solutions.

What should I do if my hands are burned by spicy food?

Usually when your fingers are stung by a sting, you rinse them with cold water or wash them with soap, but it doesn’t help. The pain is still there, and cold water can only temporarily relieve the pain.

What should I do at this time? Today Xiaoyou will teach you some tips.

1. Makeup remover or cooking oil

First of all, the burning sensation on your hands after cutting peppers is because peppers contain a substance called capsaicin. Once this substance comes into contact with the skin, it will cause the skin to become hot and red, and will also stimulate the pain nerves to cause discomfort.

But capsaicin is insoluble in water, so soaking in ice water or salt water will not help. However, here is a piece of knowledge: capsaicin is fat-soluble! Fat soluble!

Therefore, you can use oily substances such as cooking oil, makeup remover, nail polish remover, etc. to dissolve it and relieve the burning sensation on your hands.

Friends, you see, knowledge is power~

2. Vinegar or lemon juice

Continue to mark the knowledge points.

Capsaicin is actually also called capsaicin. As the name suggests, it is an alkaline substance. You have never heard of "fat soluble" but you have always heard of "acid-base neutralization".

Therefore, just apply acidic substances on your hands to neutralize capsaicin and relieve pain.

So, what is acidic?

The most common vinegar in our daily life is white vinegar. If you have lemons at home, using lemon juice will be better.

3. Alcohol

If knowledge reserves are not enough, social experience can make up for it.

If you pay more attention to the news, you may know that capsaicin is extracted in industry by soaking and separating it with edible alcohol.

In other words, the chemical elements in alcohol can take away capsaicin from peppers. Since this can be done in industry, it can naturally be done in life as well.

However, you should pay attention to the method. You should not wash your hands with alcohol or soak your hands in alcohol. Instead, pour alcohol on a cotton ball, then use the cotton ball to repeatedly wipe your palms and fingers, and finally rinse with water.

Be sure to rub in the same direction, as this will help the capsaicin be removed by the alcohol.