Comments on: Jalapeno pepper hands: how to cure the burn

By: Hrj2463

Hrj2463 — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:25:00 +0000

This exact thing happened to me last night, of course without all the cool story hospital details. I only deseeded 6 jalepenos without gloves. It has now been 13 hours later or more and I still burn in all my joints of my hands, if I touch any part of my body with my now very clean hands it burns and just when I think the burning is going to subside, I have to wash my hands and it comes back with a vengence. typing is a little difficult. The only thing that remotely helped me sleep last night was the icepack of frozen berries I slept with. Clearly, not the kind of trauma you went through, but insane amount of lingering pain for such a small job. Lesson learned. always use gloves! PS I accidentally bit a nail, by habit and my tongue is aching. 13 hours later. whew. Why is it that I can stomach them to some extent, but handling them brings such lengthy pain. I get the pepper spray defense now. I will be having my drinks today.

By: Sergiosvdr

Sergiosvdr — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:44:00 +0000

My 10 yr old helped with cream cheese filled jalapenos wrapped with bacon and several hours later her fingers were on fire. I felt really bad being that I had her help me with that but had to find a solution for my baby. Started looking on internet thinking I was going to have a hard time finding my answer. Tried several of methods I read about but yours finally did the trick. BATHROOM CLEANER WITH BLEACH! Thank you!

By: Kboddy

Kboddy — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:50:00 +0000

Holy crap..I just cut one very small pepper and im dyin..cant imagine how this person felt..especially when morphine did not help..which totally helped me after My c section..so basically it was worse than birth

By: Westbrookmisty

Westbrookmisty — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:52:00 +0000

i cut up about 15 jalapenos and stuffed them with cheese and wrapped them with bacon. my hands began to burn so intensivly that i wanted to cry. the pain was agonizing and just wouldnt stop. i tried washing them with dawn and water over and over. it didnt stop so i tried anything i could find: vinigar, soaking in milk, calamin lotion, aloe vera,hand soap, exfoliating scrub, after sun lotion, utterly smooth urea lotion, and nothing worked. the pain just wouldn’t stop. after about three hours the pain subsided to just managable and my cat jumped up on the bed. i picked him up and pet him. right after that, the pain was intense again. i don’t know whats in cat fur but i makes it so much worse. i have no solution to the problem but i would definitly suggest for you to stay away from animals.

By: Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:44:00 +0000

i did the same thing tonight and nothing works!!!!!!!! i did the sour cream, vinegar and oil, bleach, lime juice , vinegar alone, milk and mud nothing helps. so instead of sleeping w my hand in water and taking the chance of spilling it everywhere im sleeping on the floor w my hand over the ac vent and aslong as it doesnt shut off it works!

By: Kate Lauderdale

Kate Lauderdale — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:55:00 +0000

Saliva definitely works. I sucked on my fingers for a while and now my tongue is on fire but my fingers are significantly better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:22:00 +0000

Hey, I’m back!

I must say Brah-Voh to the person who suggested saliva. It was so simple it was brilliant. It’s not like my mouth burns for hours after I eat jalapenos, so my mouth must be doing something right.

Before I fell asleep last night, I licked my hands like you don’t know what. It actually began to burn more at first, but I took it as a clue that it was working.

I slept through the night and am currently pain free.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000

I had no idea this sort of thing happened.

I am a self-taught user of jalapenos. For years I had simply chopped without using gloves because it never crossed my mind that I would have scorched hands. Sure, I recently had a few occasions where I had minor burning after touching more sensitive skin, but it washed away fairly quickly.

Today, I was in trouble.

When I went to the store and bought jalapenos for a dish that I decided to make, I marveled at not only the abundance of jalapenos, but their sheer size.

They didn’t look like the usual puny things I buy, so I thought they must be in season.

Damn right, they were in season!

I thought I was going crazy and maybe mixed some cleaning fluids and was now paying the price.

I’m about to coat my fingers in Neosporin to see if it works. It’s all I’ve got at this point.

I was intrigued by the antacid suggestion, so I even busted up Tums and diluted in water as it was all I had on hand.

Not quite the result I was looking for.

Let’s just hope that it stays at this pain level and doesn’t progress through the night. Otherwise, I don’t want to have to call in sick and tell my Hispanic coworkers how the white person doesn’t know how to chop jalapenos properly.

By: Diana Stephens

Diana Stephens — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:23:00 +0000

Thank you, Tina. The vinegar/water solution totally worked!

By: Heather Johnston

Heather Johnston — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:42:00 +0000

I cut up 4 – only 4! – jalepenos on Saturday night. Now it’s Tuesday morning. And anything hot triggers the return of the burn. Seriously? At least it’s 90% more mild than it was Saturday night. I will NEVER, ever, ever work with jalepenos again.