How does one relieve the burning from red chilly

Try an application of vegetable oil - rub into the area - leave on for a few minutes - then wash with soap and water. You can repeat this several times. It is usually very effective.

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Did Not relieve the burning , tried it 3 times and hands still have a burning sensation.

Burning of hands seems to have gotten worst not better.The veg oil seems to have made thing much worse any other info on what to do?

Edited by Customer (name blocked for privacy) on August 25 2006 at 12:38am

HMMM so I guess I just have to put up with the burning hands from the red chilly oil, I tried what was suggested and it only made hands burn more................ Whay no other resoponse???

I'm sorry, I am at work and was tied up there for a while.

In the past I have had very good results with this approach. This was actually suggested to me by our local poison center years ago, they often had calls about this exact problem every year when people would be canning hot peppers. I honestly have never had someone not get some relief from this.

I'm wondering if you may be having an allergic type reaction to the peppers. If this is the case, you may get some relief with Benadryl - by mouth (25 mg ) up to 4 times daily (every 4-6 hours.)

If you don't get relief, I would suggest a visit to the emergency department - they may need to give you a shot of steroids if you are having an allergic reaction


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Will try the benadryl and repond again later. to its affects. But you and I both know that sitting in a hospital waiting room for 6 hours is not going to happen...

Let me know if the Benadry doesn't help. The other thing you can try - over the counter hydrocortisone cream (like Cortaid)

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I went online to a gaming site (POGO) and asked the ladies there if any of them had run into this before and the reply I got was that the veg oil only holds in the heat and reactivates the pepper oil and to use white viniger which did have a cooling affect on my hands. But is best used right after working with the peppers. thought you would like to know. Will reply again in the morning as to wether the benadryl worked or not.

Well the benadryl did not work at all. I was up until 5am holding on to 2 ziplock bags of ice, until I finally fell asleep. There is still a tingle in my hands as I am typing this but nothing like yesterday. Lesson learned never use bare hands when dealing with red chilly peppers.

I'm sorry to hear that!
One of the other experts (TropicalMoe) here at justanswer.com had suggested that you might try a burn spray such as Solarcaine

That actually isn't a bad idea - This may help.

I do agree - if you are going to be working with peppers - latex gloves is a GREAT idea - and IMMEDIATELY washing your hands after contact - don't wait until things start to burn.


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there was nothing that you had given me to relief and pain from the red chilly pepper oil. In fact the veg oil suggestion only made things worse. so I will not be accepting your answers. Sorry but thats how I feel about this whole matter.

Hello, I thought I would put my two cents in.

Wash your hands with milk. My Grandfather had a huge garden and grew various varieties of hot peppers. All the women in the family would get together and can the vegetables. When handling the hot peppers, they would use milk to relieve the burning. Their hands became irriated when cutting them prior to cooking. One of the things they made was a spicy olive oil which contained hot peppers and garlic.

Milk is also effective when your your mouth burns from these peppers or the oils as well.

Give it a try.



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Edited by Two_Westies on August 27 2006 at 10:38pm

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I did wash with milk, cream, cottage cheese, yogart the whole ball of wax and even the veg oil that I was told to do ,, but that only reactivatied the pepper oil . I was up til 5 am holding on to bags of ice. so I did not get any relief from any of the suggestion I was given.. hands are not burning any more from the pepper oil, only learned that the next time I will use gloves..