How can I get rid of the discomfort of my fingers when I get chilli water on my fingers?

Just wash it with soap, I tried.

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Problem description: My hands are so spicy that I can't wash them off no matter how I wash them, is there any way to remove the chili water?

Analysis: After cutting the chili, my hand hurts as if it was burned by fire. At this time, some people will rinse with cold water, but this will only relieve the pain slightly and will not completely solve the problem. In fact, you can use alcohol, vinegar, hot water to wash your hands and other methods to remove the spicy smell.

The substance in chili peppers that produces a spicy taste is a type of capsaicin that is collectively known as capsaicin. When cutting chili peppers, capsaicin sticks to **, which will dilate the microvessels, resulting in redness, heat, and acceleration of the local metabolic rate. At the same time, it will also ** pain nerves, which is why we usually feel that our hands are burned.

It is believed that this is caused by the chemical transformation of the nerve endings caused by capsaicin.

Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline aqueous solutions, but insoluble in cold water. In industry, the extraction of capsaicin from chili peppers is done with edible alcohol as an extracting agent. Therefore, according to this principle, in life, you can take the method of applying alcohol to dissolve the capsaicin on your hands.

After cutting the chili peppers, you can use an alcohol cotton ball to wipe your hands in one direction, then wash your hands with water, dry them again, and wipe them three times in a row until the symptoms are relieved.

In addition, you can also wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar, because vinegar is acidic and can be neutralized with capsaicin. If there is no medical alcohol and no vinegar, it is not bad to wash your hands with hot water, because capsaicin will produce ** evaporation at high temperatures, although it is not as good as wine and vinegar, but the effect is better than cold water.

In fact, when cutting chili peppers, you can press the chili peppers with your fingers instead of pinching them with your fingernails, so that your hands are not easy to burn.

There are several ways to do this, as follows:

1. Washing: first use teasing to sell hot water, and then use cold water.

2. Pour some vinegar and rub it repeatedly to let the vinegar stay on your hands for a while, which can effectively relieve the symptoms.

3. When you go to the bathroom, you can use toothpaste or soap to rub your hands sensitively.

4. You can use a cotton swab to wipe the alcohol on your hands.

Here are a few tips for getting your hands on chili peppers:

1. Wet your hands with water before touching chili peppers, which can reduce direct contact with your hands, and wash your hands immediately after contact.

2. Wear gloves before touching chili peppers to prevent spicy hands.

There are ways to get rid of spicy:

1. Apply cool oil. Cooling oil has the effect of cooling and dissipating, relieving itching and pain. In the case of redness and swelling of the affected area, but there is no broken skin, you can try applying cooling oil to relieve the spicy feeling of your hands. After application, the sensation of burning hot hands will disappear immediately, and the effect is more obvious.

2. Alcohol rubbing. Capsaicin can be dissolved in alcohol, but it is difficult to dissolve in water. Therefore, if the chili pepper is spicy when you cut it, you can take the wine or white vinegar at home and repeatedly apply the Qingchang chain to the affected area, and then rinse it off with cold water.

3. Apply toothpaste. Wipe the affected area with a toothpaste containing cooling factor, after being spicy to the hand, there will be a burning sensation, the toothpaste contains silica, the temperature is relatively low, which can inhibit the burning sensation and assist in eliminating redness and swelling.