YEEEEEEEEEE OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[Farmwithjunk]

Somebody help me!

We're finishing up with our canning. Just got done with 32 qts of various peppers. Red chiles and japaleno's were the last to go in the jars. I can't touch ANYTHING without inflicting serious pain upon my person. Since I've been drinking lots of water in this stifleing hot weather, that's a real issue right now.

Soap and water doesn't seem to be nuetralizing this stuff. Yeah, I SHOULD have been wearing rubber gloves, but I wasn't. Anyone have any tricks to dis-arming the attack of the killer peppers?

 

[gordon21]

Wash your hands and rinse thoroughly. Place your finger tips into exactly 12oz of cold beer. (regular beer-none of that lite stuff). Leave them for five seconds. Take your fingers out, shake off the beer (do not towel dry them) and then drink the beer. Repeat the fingers in beer process every 10 minutes for 60 minutes.

I guarantee in one hour you will not be concerned about your hands at all; you may not even remember canning. What peppers?????




PS Wash your hands in the morning. They may still smell like beer.

 

[knute_m]

Oh man! Been there, done that!

Take a look at this link -- maybe one of the suggestions can help:

http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/pepper/2003050749028028.html

I've only done it once, and that was about 25 years ago. That was serious pain. So far, the lesson has lasted.

I just wish the dog would learn about skunks!

Knute

 

[goaliedad]

Should you forget to use caution and end up with burning hands, gel from the leaf stem of an aloe vera plant offers immediate relief when applied to hands or other burning areas. Use the gel carefully. A 10 percent solution of chlorox will also neutralize.


I found this after a quick google search. Hope it helps

 

[_RaT_]

Wash your hands and rinse thoroughly. Place your finger tips into exactly 12oz of cold beer. (regular beer-none of that lite stuff). Leave them for five seconds. Take your fingers out, shake off the beer (do not towel dry them) and then drink the beer. Repeat the fingers in beer process every 10 minutes for 60 minutes.

I guarantee in one hour you will not be concerned about your hands at all; you may not even remember canning. What peppers?????





PS Wash your hands in the morning. They may still smell like beer.

I concour with Gordon but have found that ice, vodka and lemmonade work quite well as well....

 

[shvl73]

What ever you do, don't rub your eyes ! Especially after handling caspian peppers, and definitely don't rinse with water. That just washes the oils from burning around your eye, to burning in your eye!
Let's just say I know someone who does some remarkably stupid things!

 

[CurlyDave]

Soap and water doesn't seem to be nuetralizing this stuff. Yeah, I SHOULD have been wearing rubber gloves, but I wasn't. Anyone have any tricks to dis-arming the attack of the killer peppers?

You don't need to put the rubber gloves on before you handle the peppers. You can put them on before you touch your sensitive parts...

I am very alergic to poison oak, so I keep a dozen or so latex disposable gloves in the tractor. Even if I wear leather gloves to handle brush, I know there is poison oak on my hands, so I put on a latex glove for personal business.

This may look sissy, but a man only has to get poison oak there once to be willing to go to extreme lengths.

The second way to combat anything on your hands is Go-Jo with pumice. The pumice takes a layer of skin off, and is really good.

 

[JimR]

Play with a skunk for a little bit. That will make your nose not smell the peppers. It may take weeks for both of the smells to go away. (SMILE)

 

[RonMar]

Having been pepper sprayed a few times, the only thing I have been taught for neutralization is large quantities of water. Soak and imerse the effected areas in cool water then air dry with a fan or wind. In fact the best place after being shot in the face is with your head in a bucket of water, but you can only keep your head under so long It usually stings untill completely dry. Peper spray exposure also tends to reactivate. I remember a particularly bad training session. After rinse and dry recovery, my face reactivated in the shower later that evening and it was like getting sprayed all over again.

 

[3RRL]

Having been pepper sprayed a few times, ....

Ron, I'm afraid to ask?....