Spill on touchpad

Hello all,
This morning, I spilled some coffee on my touchpad and the bottom of the space bar, and right side command and alt keys. Since then, the buttons have been working fine. But the touchpad is not working at all. The cursor was moving randomly, and constantly thinks that there is a finger on the touchpad (ie when I try to move the cursor, it thinks there's 2 fingers moving, so it zooms in and out). But now, it doesn't even recognize anything at all.
I was wondering if anyone has had similar experiences and how y'all went about fixing it.
Thanks a lot in advance!

This is a very delayed response only to add my experience with my MBP retina and a liquid spill.
I think my good luck was due to the spill being a splash of Jameson irish whiskey. Keyboard had been protected with a cover.
After blotting up the major spill quickly with paper towels, I used some compressed air (possibly not a good idea from reading the other posts as it may push liquid further in), cut some strips of paper (a bit less than 1 cm wide) and slipped them into the seems around the pad. On the side by the keyboard, I was able to advance it under the pad and wick up a bit more of the liquid.
I think I lucked out by intending to drink whiskey and not mineral water. And, no, I hadn't actually started to drink any, yet.

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