Skin Reaction to Chilli Peppers Posted: 07-14-07 21:31pm
Hi there,
I was cutting up some hot red
chillis recently, (which i have done for
many years) and then proceeded to wash up
the dishes in hot water.
Two hours later, I found that all my
fingers on both hands started to get
extremely hot and tingling building up to
intense pain, which was only relieved by
ice application . This scenario continued
for close to 8 hours the only relief being
after a period of time , due to rubbing my
hands in vegetable (olive) oil but relief
was very short term. (This was
recommended by the Poisons Help line)
After 8 hrs the burning sensation
suddenly and quickly resolved . 12 hours
after that, there was still some residual
tingling in my right hand..
Has anyone heard of any specific effective
treatment for this burning pain which
lasted so long after contact with chillis?
bax2
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shortgeek
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 597 Location: DC
Posted: 07-15-07 07:30am
I've heard of prevention - buy a box of
disposable latex gloves (the ones that
look like doctor's gloves) and put them on
before cutting any kind of pepper or
handling hot spices with your hands (e.g.
when rubbing spice onto chicken). This
keeps the oils from the peppers from
coming into contact with your hands.
