I tried hand sanitizer and it worked temporarily but the burning returned quickly. and for like 5 hours and 30 minutes I had felt like my hands were in an oven! I was in a lot of pain for three to four hours. I helped my mom this evening make cream cheese jalapenos and after I cut four jalapenos and “gutted” them (3pm) .. my hands (12:30 am) were still burning until i came upon this website.. i didnt have lemon juice or any of the other things but I tried mustard.. and i am telling you it worked!! So I called a different pharcamy and was told that the best thing would be to put them in warm water. I think it’s alcohol-based and it doesn’t leave your hands greasy. I slept through the night and am currently pain free. I am contemplating cutting my arm off, running into the street, and slapping the first person I see with it. i knew i should of wore gloves or something but i’m an ass. The only relief I got was from cool running water but I was exhausted and had to sleep. I took a piece of a paper towel, soaked it in milk, and wrapped it around an ice cube and held that to my eye.. i was also doing this with the hand that also got the burn on it so I didn’t notice until my eye got better that my hand kept burning. Considering the fact that I cut the jalepano about 11am this morning and my hand didn’t really start burning until I got in the shower at like 4:30/5:00ish pm this evening, I figure I’ve been doing pretty good over some of the stories I’ve read. I’m waiting for the need to pee and I will try that. I didn’t have time to read all these comments, so excuse me if I repeat someone’s remedy. I Dipped my hand in milk, iced milk, washed with soap, scrubbed with lemons,soaked in rubbing alcohol and even wore those stupid gloves and filled it with calamine lotion(which made it burn more). I was makeing jalapenopoppers the ones with cream cheese and bacon for a poolside bbq. Sadly I didn’t have it in the house this time but I will have it for next time. cheese recipie and made it tonight for din din. Nothing else worked so give it a try . I’ve made poppers 2 times before and NO problem…. If you process these little firecrackers do it outside and spred the wash water along fences or decks as a critters repellant. After soaking them in milk for a bit I just dried them off with paper towel and didn’t rinse them. I just wrote up my own pepper experience on my blog:  http://ahappyvalentine.blogspot.com/2011/07/dont-try-this-at-home.html, I tried many of these treatments with no help for my burning hands. It sure is an experience like no other. O.K. Nope. I dipped them in sugar and water…actually I had him pour a bunch of sugar in my hands and rubbed vigorously! Lemon juice made the pain worse, cold water didn’t help, I was ready to go to the hospital I couldn’t stand the pain, then being somewhat of a hypochondriac I started thinking maybe it wasn’t the jalapenos, maybe I was having a stroke!!! Well I dont know if it was good or not because my hands have been soaking in milk for hours!!!! I’ve told the story many times, and boy do I feel bad now that I have a bit of an idea of what he must have been going through. ….now lets see if my eyes burn when i take my contacts out later…. wow that semmed to help a little. I thank God (literally) that I did not have my contacts in and that I did not have to go to the washroom. Why is it that I can stomach them to some extent, but handling them brings such lengthy pain. I used an Origins’ charcoal face mask and that worked awsome, and finsihed up with a Pond’s pore clenser, and some Clean and Clear face wash. Tried soaking my hands in milk and it felt great until the milk warmed up, then it felt like scalding water. My hands are still on fire. I suffered jalapeno hands yesterday and after five hours of intense burning I found this site, and it helped because some of the comments made me laugh and took my mind off the pain! So why is it only MY HANDS and FINGERS ARE ON FIRE?!! It has finally subsided. I waited about 45 minutes. my hand stopped burning finally after 6 hours.. i tried everything but nothing worked. vinigar, WTF nothing is working. All I know is my husband better thank me and buy me flowers for making him this chili!!! I hate that the pain comes back especially under my thumb nail. I tried all kinds of crazy things…. Not sure if this is good idea, but stopping the burning. Has anyone heard of an allergy attack caused by jalapeno peppers? Good luck! No vinegar in the house, and I just ran out of oil today. I know there are a lot of remedies posted here, but I would imagine that doing anything to really aggravate the skin when it’s worked up over peppers is not a good plan.