It is normal to feel hot hands after cutting peppers, because there is a substance called capsaicin in peppers, which will stick to the skin and dilate blood vessels when cutting peppers, which will lead to redness and fever of the skin, accelerate the metabolic rate of this skin, and stimulate the corresponding pain nerves, which is why the hands feel hot after cutting peppers. Generally speaking, this capsaicin is the reason why the hands feel hot after cutting peppers.
After understanding what causes the hot hands after cutting peppers, we can take corresponding measures to help alleviate the hot hands in some ways. The following tips can help alleviate the hot hands after cutting peppers.
1, wash your hands with vinegar
Because capsaicin is caused by a chemical reaction, you can wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar or white vinegar, and vinegar can neutralize capsaicin in capsaicin, so there will be no chemical reaction, which will alleviate the burning of your hands.
2. Wash your hands with medical alcohol
Capsaicin can be dissolved in medical alcohol, but it is not easy to dissolve in cold water, so you can wash your hands or wipe your hands with medical alcohol, wash your hands with clear water after wiping, and then wipe them three times in the same way to relieve the symptoms of burning hands.
3. Wash your hands with hot water
If there is no medical alcohol or vinegar, hot water can be used to relieve it, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation at high temperature. Although the effect is not as good as the above two methods, it is better than washing hands with cold water.
4. Rub your hands with tea.
After cutting the pepper, you can rub it with tea leaves in your hands, because tea leaves have the function of removing spicy, or you can soak it in cold tea water for two minutes, which can alleviate the feeling of burning your hands.
After cutting peppers, if your hands are hot, you can use the above four methods to relieve them. At the same time, you should never wash them with cold water after cutting peppers, because cold water can't change the situation of hot hands, so you can wash your hands with hot water, which can relieve the situation of hot hands well. Of course, you can also take relevant protective measures before cutting peppers. For example, you can use disposable gloves to cut peppers. Although the action of cutting peppers is somewhat unskilled after doing so, you can do it.