1, the reason why cutting peppers is hot.
Before we look at what to do after cutting peppers, let's first understand why cutting peppers is hot.
Pepper contains capsaicin. If capsaicin touches the skin and enters the body through pores or small wounds in the skin, it will dilate the capillaries, cause skin fever and redness, and accelerate local metabolism. At the same time, it will stimulate the pain nerve and produce the feeling of burning hands. It is generally believed that this is caused by the chemical transformation of nerve endings of skin by capsaicin.
After cutting peppers, you feel that your hands are hot. You can deal with them in the following ways:
2. Wash off the residual capsaicin.
Rinse the affected area with running tap water and wash off the residual capsaicin on the surface. If the hand is not red and swollen, it just feels a little spicy. The spicy feeling will disappear in a few minutes after washing with water.
If your hands feel hot and your skin is red, swollen and painful, you need to continue to use the following small methods.
3. Alcohol cures spicy hands
Capsaicin can be dissolved in alcohol, but it is difficult to dissolve in water. So if you get spicy when cutting Chili, you can take wine or white vinegar from home and apply it to the affected area repeatedly, and then rinse it off with cold water.
4. Toothpaste cures hot hands
When the toothpaste containing ice cream factor is applied to the affected area, the skin will feel burning after being spicy. The toothpaste contains silicon dioxide, and the temperature is relatively low, which can inhibit the burning feeling and help eliminate redness and swelling.
5, ice ice on the affected area
If the skin is red and swollen, the burning sensation is still strong, and the appeal method is not effective, you can use ice to eliminate the redness. When applying ice, it is best to wrap the ice cubes with cotton cloth and rotate them back and forth to massage the affected skin. This method will take effect in 15 minutes.
6, cool oil to cure hot hands
Cool oil has the effects of cooling, relieving itching and relieving pain. If the affected area is red and swollen, but there is no broken skin, you can try to apply cool oil to relieve the feeling of burning hands. After smearing, the feeling of burning hands will disappear immediately, and the effect is more obvious.
7, anti-spicy tips
(1) Wet your hands before cutting peppers.
Before cutting peppers, you can soak your hands with water. Capsaicin is not easily soluble in water, and the water on your hands is equivalent to a protective film, which prevents capsaicin from contacting your skin directly. Therefore, in order to prevent your hands from getting hot, you should wet your hands before cutting peppers.
(2) Wear gloves to cut peppers
The disadvantage of wearing gloves to cut peppers is that it is inconvenient, but it can completely isolate the possibility of hot peppers. This method is suitable for people with sensitive skin.
(3) Do not touch the cut pepper
Don't touch the cut pepper directly, so it is easy for the pepper juice to stick to the skin. If you need to pack the pepper, you'd better use props to move it instead of grabbing it directly.
8. Warm tips
Remember not to wash your hands with hot water after you get spicy pepper, which will easily aggravate the burning feeling.
9. Methods of mitigation
1, after cutting pepper, you can wipe your hands with an alcohol cotton ball in one direction, then wash your hands with clear water, dry them again, and wipe them for three times until the symptoms are relieved.
2, you can also wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar or white vinegar, because vinegar is acidic and can be neutralized with capsaicin.
3. If there is no medical alcohol or vinegar, it is also good to wash your hands with hot water, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation at high temperature. Although it is not as good as alcohol and vinegar, the effect is better than cold water.
4, you can put the tea in your hand and rub it. Tea has the effect of removing spicy. Soak in cold tea water for 2 minutes to relieve the burning feeling.
5. Apply the coal cooled after combustion to your hands and rub it several times. Rinse it with clear water and then wash it with soap to remove the spicy taste.
6. Wash your hands with toothpaste.
7. Wash the water with soap first, and then soak your hands in milk. Iced milk is the best. Because protein in milk or yogurt can alleviate capsaicin.
8. Wash the soap and soak it in rice for a while.
9. Don't wash your hands first, rub them with dry flour first, and then wash them for a while. The effect is very good.
10, rub your hands with orange peel.