friends help: Ink Poisoning? - Help.com

As long as you’re not breaking the skin, I don’t think it will hurt you. People write on themselves all the time without anything negative happening.

The pours will absorb the oils that is not good for you, but nothings been reported from drawing on your skin with a pen. Indigestion is another story.

salmonella, stomach ache, throat infection, etc… there is a oil in most ink that can actually be very harmful in high concentrations.

Hey, try using milky pens. They are perfect for it, they are made for skin. Ink is really bad for your skin. Unless you put it in an open wound, or have some kind of medical problem it probably won’t do that much damage. It’s a pain in the *** to get off though. It’s What you have is a great idea. I might use that. Just so you know, it is not completely getting rid of your problem. You may still have a problem with wanting to see a change on your physical body. It is causing you pleasure. Hey, do you think highlights might work? (Probably not but red streaks might still be cool) Oh, by the way I really recommend SillyPutty. You can only get ink poisoning if you ingest ink or if it gets into your bloodstream. Your skin won’t absorb any ink if you draw on yourself. You can not get ink poisoning by writing on you hands or arms. Only if you cut yourself and then put ink on you cut. Then you have great chance of getting ink poisoning. If you still have any “marks” left on your arm make sure you dont draw on them.

I pick at the sides of my fingers and I get little cuts there, and while doing a school project I got some blue pen ink on my thumb on my little cut there. It started to hurt a little bit and I scrubbed my thumb with hand soap and then dish soap to get the ink off. And because I worry a lot, I put some bacitracin (anti-bacterial cream) and a band-aid on it.

Am I way overracting over a little wound and a tiny bit of ink on it?