The sad thing is I can empathise with this. One time when I was little I breaking dried habanero into flakes. Suddenly I felt something hit my eye, and start to burn. I had thought it was a bit of oil. So I rinsed my eyes, and rinsed them again. But nothing seemed to help they just burned, and burned. After a bit of delirium, and rubbing a habanero seed popped out from under my eye lid. After that the rinsing worked.