Wear Gloves!!

I had a bit of a crisis last night. I made homemade salsa...which I do often and generally have no problems. This time I wanted to make it spicier, so I got 2 habanero peppers to add to the normal mixture. I cut them up and threw away the seeds and went on with making the salsa. About an hour after I finished making the salsa, I noticed that my hands were burning a bit. It continued to get worse until it felt like my hands were on fire! I looked online for a remedy. Most of the suggestions were to wear gloves when working with the peppers, but it was too late for that. So I found other suggestions and found many people online who had had the same problem and it lasted for 8-24 hours for some people! I had a horrible night. I tried several remedies with no avail before I went to sleep. I thought I wouldn't notice it if I slept, but it was burning so much I would sleep for about an hour, and the pain would wake me up. Crazy! I ended up getting about 6 hours of sleep off and on, but it was a horrible night!

Here are all the things that I tried:
-soap
- dawn dishwashing soap
- shampoo
- lemon juice
- milk
- Tylenol
- baking soda paste
- waterless hand sanitizer
-acetone
-holding bags of ice (this worked the best...I slept with bags of ice)
-Aloe Vera
-Aloe Vera with lidocaine


Here is my advise to you....if you are using Habanero peppers...WEAR GLOVES!!!