Ouch, is right. Would milk neutralize it like it does in your mouth?

Haven't tried it Susan, but perhaps I should. Thanks

I did that with some habaneros before I knew better, and although the burning calmed down in a couple of days, for a solid week I could feel a little tingle on those fingertips. I won't make that mistake again either.

I found out the hard way with jalapenos that I grew. I now wear gloves when I seed them and take off the skins after roasting them. Sorry don't know what would help except maybe some aloe gel that you rub where it hurts.
Clare

My hands burned even when wearing gloves.... and I don't do the hot peppers for DH anymore. He has to do his own, and then can't touch me. ;)

Moni

My poor neighbor got pepper burns when she was doing some canning. I think she then used ice on it, along with trying everything else, and she ended up with frostbight. She had no one to call, until I got home and then we went to the emergency room. I know she can take a lot of pain, but the peppers had her crying. I learned at that time to never risk it and always use gloves now when canning and cutting several of them.

Sue

Along the same lines, I learned that the burning sensation I felt on Saturday morning didn't come from the car seat heater being inadvertently turned on - it was from the capsaicin cream I'd applied nearly 24 hours before, for sciatica.

Never again.:)

I do know that if you get a burning in your eye from handing a hot pepper that if you can put a piece of your hair into your eye, it will help!
I read about it in a novel I was reading and later, handled peppers, inadvertently touched my eye and was in extreme pain.
I washed my hands well and then got some hair and got it in my eye. It really worked but certainly not easy to do when you are alone.