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How To Cool Burns From Chilli Peppers by Nobody: 9:15am On Nov 05, 2013
Most Chili peppers, contain capsaicin, which is the main ingredient in pepper spray. Capsaicin can add flavor and spiciness to food, but can also cause an extreme burning sensation which can last for minutes or even hours. Capsaicin is a natural oil found in all chilies, what we have come to call peppers. If your mouth is burning up, here's how to cool off. These tips will likely work on your skin, too!

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Drink milk. There's a protein found in milk called casein that acts like a detergent against capsaicin. It'll actually pull the capsaicin compounds away from the nerve receptor binding sites in your mouth. Drink at least a half cup, making sure you rinse your mouth well first. You can spit it out, but you won't get as much relief in your throat that way.
*.The colder the milk is, the more effective it tends to be against the burning sensation.
*.If you have gotten the oil on your hands, soaking your hands in bowl of milk with ice cubes in it will help relieve the pain. Make sure to keep the milk cold, and replace the milk with fresh milk if the pain-relieving effects lessen.
*.If you don't have any milk, you may be able to coat the inside of your mouth to soothe it with cottage cheese, cold plain yogurt, sour cream or ice cream which should also contain the milk protein called casein.

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Drink sugar water. Mix a tablespoon or more of sugar with a cup water and use it to rinse out your mouth. Cold sugar solution (10%) at 20°C/68°F is about as effective as whole milk at 5°C/41°F but the relief only lasts while the mixture is still in your mouth so you'll need to keep rinsing and spitting until the pain subsides.

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Drink alcohol. Capsaicin is soluble in alcohol, so drinking a beer or a shot can help wash it away. It's not nearly as effective, however, as milk. Alcohol is a solvent to capsaicin, not a neutralizer, so it will break it loose, but it may just spread it around.

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Rinse your mouth with oil. Capsaicin is also soluble in vegetable oils so swishing some around in your mouth might help. Keep in mind that oil has been found to be only slightly more effective than water in relieving pepper burns, so use it only if nothing else is available.

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For skin burns only, try petroleum jelly or Vaseline.Do not put it in your mouth!
Re: How To Cool Burns From Chilli Peppers by Nobody: 7:57am On Dec 13, 2013
Wow .....nice article ......i've learnt a lot
Re: How To Cool Burns From Chilli Peppers by Nobody: 8:12am On Dec 13, 2013
Swagalord18: Wow .....nice article ......i've learnt a lot
glad It helped
Re: How To Cool Burns From Chilli Peppers by Nobody: 8:32am On Dec 13, 2013
Oghos1:
lol .....i used the thread to practice, ...then modified it to that

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