A Hot Pepper Burned Me.

Last night I had a little run in with a HOT pepper. I cut it up, tossed it in the soup and thought nothing of it. About 20 minutes later the skin between my pinky and my 2nd to last finger started to burn, along with the skin under my thumb nail on the other hand. I scrubbed my hand with soap and water and tried to ignore it but it kept getting worse and worse. After another 20 minutes I decided I had to do something, so I grabbed the low-fat milk out of the fridge, poured about a cup of it into a bowl and stuck my hand in it. It did nothing. I tried Neosporin and alcohol based hand sanitizer. I scrubbed it with a Brillo pad. I tried everything we had in the house. We had to go for whole milk.
At 10 PM, Abby (a true angel), went out to try to find some. About 30 minutes later (I was starting to get really nervous), she rolled back in with full fat CHOCOLATE milk and vanilla yogurt (everything was closed except the gas station across the 9th de Julio - a 16 lane avenue near our house - and this was all she could find). We determined the yogurt had more fat, so I dumped it in a bowl and stuck my hand in it. In this condition, I ate dinner and surfed the net for more solutions.
After about 30 minutes of solid vanilla-yogurt submersion (it actually smelled kind of yummy), the burn started to subside enough for me to wash my hand and go to sleep.
Surprisingly (it hurt THAT bad), there was no lasting damage and no pain in the morning. Thank goodness. Lesson learned.

This link proved exceedingly helpful in my time of need:
How to get hot pepper sting off the skin?