Burning fingers caused by chili peppers

First of all, Happy Chinese New Year!!! It's kinda a little bit late already but I have a hard time typing at the moment so I wasn't able to make this post a little bit earlier. Why is that?

Well, me and my sis wanted to make siomai complete with chili paste. I've found a recipe on the net so we went to the grocery earlier to buy the ingredients. Since I really wanna try making the chili paste (as the process looked so simple), I prepared the chilis and other stuff. Quite easy really until after I was done with the chopping of chili peppers. The fingers in my left hand started to sting. Then I remembered something I've read a couple of weeks back that to prepare chilis I have to use gloves on my hands. Too late... I didn't really think it'd sting because I only chopped a few... as in a few pieces only for trial purposes. But no...the stinging in my fingers slowly intensified.

What to do? I remembered that for burns, a first aid using tomatoes can be used aside from using toothpaste, shampoo, etc. Since I was in  the kitchen, it was easy to find a tomato. But it didn't work. My fingers are burning like crazy and I still have other stuff to prepare. Washing hands with water and soap only worked for a short while. Then I tried the toothpaste and shampoo stuff. They both worked for just a short while also. After preparing the stuff, I decided to continue with the mixing process tomorrow as I can't concentrate with my fingers stinging. I searched the net for some solutions and I've read somewhere that rubbing rock salt will help then soak with water with shampoo or toothpaste and something like soak in milk, too. Wait, here's the link: How to Stop Chili or Chilli Burning. I did that... it helped a bit. I next tried using my milk salt bath and still the same. I can't really use milk as we weren't able to buy one earlier -- unless I use baby's milk (my 1 yr old niece's baby formula). But I'm not sure about that. *sigh*

The burns in my left fingers have subsided a little. It's a bit tolerable than earlier. I gotta give the rock salt treatment another go later. I think it's done quite some good already. My fingers will probably feel better after another salt treatment. But so much for preparing food. Next time I won't even try this again. huhu... So much for eating siomai now...