What to do if you get spicy

Since chili peppers contain a large amount of capsaicin, capsaicin is not only sensed by the taste buds, but also by other sensory nerves in the body, so the spicy feeling is not only felt inside the mouth. Especially when cutting peppers, you must pay attention to protecting your hands, because capsaicin can corrode the nerves in your hands, causing your hands to feel very spicy. What should I do if I don't take protective measures when cutting peppers and my hands get very spicy?

What to do if your hands are burned by peppers

1. After your hands are burned by chili peppers, you cannot rinse them with cold water. Instead, you should soak your hands in hot water in time, because the higher temperature can accelerate the decomposition and volatilization of capsaicin on the surface of the skin, which can quickly reduce the burning feeling on the surface of people's hands.

2. When cutting peppers, in order to prevent your hands from being burned by the peppers, you can take preventive measures in advance. You can wear disposable gloves on your hands to avoid direct contact between your hands and the peppers. If you don’t have gloves, you can also wrap a clean convenient bag on your hands and then cut the peppers. In this way, the capsaicin contained in the peppers cannot get on the skin, and people’s hands will not be burned by the peppers.

The solution to spicy chili peppers

1. After eating chili peppers, you can directly apply white wine or alcohol to the skin of your hands, because the capsaicin contained in chili peppers can be dissolved in ethanol, and both alcohol and white wine contain a lot of ethanol. After applying them on the skin of your hands, the capsaicin on the surface of the skin can evaporate quickly. Wash it with clean water after a few minutes, and the spicy feeling will disappear.

2. Soaking in white vinegar is also one of the important ways to relieve the spiciness of peppers. The spiciness of peppers is mainly because the capsaicin it contains harms people's skin. Capsaicin is an alkaline substance. After encountering the acidic components in white vinegar, it will be decomposed, and the damage to people's skin can be quickly reduced. Normally, when people’s hands are burned by hot peppers, they can soak them in white vinegar for ten minutes and then wash them with clean water.