Critical life lesson

[siercia]

One should not cut up hot peppers then touch one's feminine parts without washing your hands veeeeery carefully.

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.

stupid peppers.

Comments

[quezz.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how many times I have done this! Spice addicts should not be allowed to...well...deal with sensitive areas. Ahem.

[picture-kept.livejournal.com]

Ow!! I thought it was bad when I had pepper guts on my hands! I can't imagine... no...I can.

(Remind me to tell you my fire ant story sometime.)

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Spicy. :)

[gala.livejournal.com]

Heh. Just you wait.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

*covers eyes* I'm not old enough for this blog. And I'm not that much younger than you guys.

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

Kinky!

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow.

[asnevitt.livejournal.com]

hopefully, you've already figured this out: use milk to neutralize the spice.

and, YOUCH!

[metalliman502.livejournal.com]

MY VIRGIN EARS!!!!!!! SWEET JESUS MY VIRGIN EARS ARE BURNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Stupid peppers or stupid person? Just asking?

[(Anonymous)]

Putney's(the parrot's) daily breakfast always consists of at least one pepper, the spicier the better in his opinion. I can't count the times that as I was cutting up his breakfast I touched my face which results in a numb spot on the skin for a good bit of time. I most definitely remember to wash my hands before touching anything more important. OUCH indeed!

[kdinconn.livejournal.com]

Oops forgot to log in before hitting [Post Comment]. That comment would be mine, of course talking about Putney was probably a dead giveaway.

[string-on-desk.livejournal.com]

OW!!! Though surprisingly things that are supposed to cool have the same effect. I put a "cooling" lotion on my hands once. That wasn't too comfortable when it encountered non-hand places either.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

*Winces and crosses legs*

Done that to my eyes but never THERE! OWEEEEEE!

[slymongoose.livejournal.com]

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Don't pay attention to anan, below.
Even those of us who now can forget and end up rubbing an eye or nose or ... touching other places. Then, it hurts and is humiliating at the same time. D'oh!

I know a loving husband who once rubbed tiger balm on his wife's hurting back and when she drifted off to sleep. She awoke, hearing whimpers of pain from the bathroom. Yep. He'd gone to urinate and had forgotten to wash his hands. The poor dear was trying to wash up without awakening her. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed the Dawn dishwashing liquid. That and some cold water fixed the problem.

Milk and/or ice cream can work. But the neutralizer used to establish the Scoville scale was sugar water. So, it's the lactose or other sugars in the milk that cool things down. On the other hand, the heat is disbursed in an oil base so fats could spread the pain.

What I'd do is swish the mouth or douse the affected area with honey (making sure it's not crystallized, which would scratch the tissue) and then use a detergent EXTERNALLY and rinse with lots of water. For the mouth, I'd spit the honey out (especially since I'm diabetic) and then get ahold of ice cream or go swish some non-mint, non-cinnamon toothpaste around the mouth and spit that out. Repeat as needed.

This is another argument for wearing non-laytex gloves while preparing peppers.

Anyway, you have my sympathy!

[slymongoose.livejournal.com]

whoops! anan=anon, and above. hee!
sorry

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch.

I'm pretty sure the Aztecs used that as a form of torture. Having had Tiger Balm and Icy Hot on my man parts I'll just say, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow. You have my eternal empathy! Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow.

(The Tiger balm was the result of applying talcum powder after using tiger balm on my knee. The soap I'd used didn't cut grease as well as I would have liked. The Icy Hot was the result of sabotage during high school gym class.)

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

A) Isn't that the essential concept of "Spanish Fly"? Which is why no one sane ever believed the damn stories.

B) Ow ow ow ow ow. And I don't even have feminine parts to sympathize. But they do.

[reebert.livejournal.com]

Oh man! Crazy enough that's happened to me before too!! hahaha