what is pepper spray and why does it hurt so much?
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Its literally hot pepper spray – its made from capsaicin, the same chemical that makes hot peppers … hot.
You know how when you are chopping some jalapeno peppers for a chilli or something spicy and you rub your eyes or maybe rub your nose or somewhere your skin is sensitive without washing your hands really well then that area where you rubbed starts to burn a bit? That’s the capsaicin irritating your skin/mucous membranes.
So that’s just the capsaicin that was in the water of the pepper and you weren’t getting a concentrated dose directly to your eyes. Now imagine that burning but 1000x stronger and you get it blasted directly into your eyeballs, its aerosolized so its in the air, you breathe it, suddenly your eyes and breathing passages are _burning_.
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