My fingers are burning. Why can pinching my ear relieve the pain?

Pinching your ears can relieve a little pain when your fingers are burned. Because the lowest part of our ear is called the earlobe, and there are fewer capillaries in the earlobe, the temperature of the earlobe is very low, which is the lowest place in our body. Even in very hot weather, it is cold and cool.

When a finger is burned, the temperature of the fingertip is very high, so if you touch the earlobe with a hand with a very low temperature, the temperature of the finger can be instantly reduced and the pain can be alleviated through heat conduction. This method is more useful for housewives who cook in the kitchen, because they are often scalded by hot air or hot water when cooking, but the temperature is not very high, even if it is not treated.

Touching the earlobe is similar to blowing it with your mouth, but when we were young, we saw many elders unconsciously touch the earlobe when their fingers burned while cooking, so we also developed this habit over time. More or less a little psychological comfort.

But if you really burn your finger by high temperature, remember that touching your earlobe won't help much. Because this time is like rapid cooling, it is best to soak your fingers in ice water or cold water for a period of time, which can reduce the temperature of your fingers and minimize the damage caused by burns.

Besides these, we can also use toothpaste to cool down. If our hands are burned by hot water, we can apply toothpaste to the surface of the burned area. Because the ingredients in toothpaste can quickly cool our skin, there will be a feeling of ice-cold, which will have a certain relief effect on the burned area.