Are you poisoning yourself?

Ha ha! Glad it's not only me that does this. Usually I will write on my hand what I need if I am popping to the shop, providing it's only a couple of things, not a whole list otherwise I'd be using both my arms. I think with all the toxins in the air, exhaust fumes etc, writing on the hand seems to pale into insignificance. If we thought about it we'd wrap ourselves up in cotton wool! So it doesn't worry me. Surely putting ink on our hands is the same as having a tattoo?

That woman is exaggerating and a worry wart. Yes, ink may be poisonous, but not when it is being used in the manner you are using it. It is poisonous if you are to drink the ink.

Bah humbug! The ink used in our ball point pen is non-toxic, and won't do any harm. If however, you decided in a drunken stupor to drink a bottle of fountain pen ink, you might have some problems. Otherwise, I got much bigger things to worry about.

If you have no open cuts or sores, writing on your hand occasionally will not hurt you. Continually leaving yourself notes in the same place can eventually allow those chemicals to penetrate and accumulate in that area. If this is a bad habit that you have, they do make childrens markers that are non-toxic and you can carry one of those around with you for making your hand notes..

I used to worry about that same thing regarding tattoos, even though I never did get one. I've never heard of anyone dying because they wrote on their hand with a pen! Heck, our skin comes into contact with all kinds of contaminants, some could even be considered toxic. That's what we have immune systems for. Well, that's one reason. We get bitten by a mosquito and their saliva gets into our bodies through that bite. It is a poison to us but what does our body do? It comes to our rescue, even though it makes us itch like crazy, it takes care of that yucky stuff that shouldn't be in our bodies. I honestly can't remember ever writing on my hand before. In a pinch, I've used lipstick to write something down but, normally, I carry a pen and tiny notebook around with me. That actually started because I have ADD and tend to forget things almost immediately if I don't write them down so I learned to be prepared. Now, about being worried of poisoning myself, I try very hard to eat right and do whatever I can to have a strong immune system. I know that I was poisoning myself but I was doing it with food, eating foods full of preservatives, dyes, all kinds of things. These days, I eat as much organic, fresh foods as I can so I know I'm doing less damage than I had been.

Well i didn't heard about this stuff much but i always had a hint that writing on hands can be poisonous, I have wrote many times on my hand be it a phone number or any short notes, that doesn't matter really much, Now the person whom you met who was talking about poisoning yourself writing on your hand she may be thinking that you must be writing every now and then on your hands, well if such is the case then i think it is a little issue because frequently doing this stuff may hamper your palms and can lead to some problems, talking the effects i really dont know how it causes troubles but it is better to take precautions than to be in cure after getting affected.

When I was in my preteens I wrote on myself with a pen all the time. Then I too was told about poisoning myself. It's the ink, you can actually get blood poisoning if the ink gets into a small cut or a sore you can get blood poisoning. I quit writing on myself because of this realization.

I think I may have written on my hands once or twice... and I always got ink smudges on my hands from writing on paper with gel pens :P It's possible that you could somehow be poisoned especially if you use those toxic inks. But it's not very likely that you would end up with some major health problem unless of course you went and wrote all over your skin everyday or poured ink into open cuts. But if you've reached that stage, I think it'd be safer if you checked yourself into a psychiatrist's then to a doctor's ;) To be on the safe side though, just try to avoid writing own yourself. I personally note down everything i need to remember on my phone since I bring my phone with me almost everywhere.

I don't know about that one! I'm not sure that ink is poison, as we use it to write on paper and rub our hands and fingers on it, and artists use it to draw and paint pictures and sometimes even, babies and kids eat it. I don't think it could be sold on the market if it was poison. I don't think the school system would be using them or letting kids use them. I really think that lady was fooling with you. Of course this is only my opinion but I think you are wrong and if not, then I stand corrected and I am sorry.

I amn a total wuss about these things. I hate any ink on me. Not for health reasons just don't like the look! LOL. I saw a woman today who had tucked her skirt into her knickers. I didj't like to mentionm it as she was quite elderly. Fortunately another woman did comment. It made several passing Italian teenage girls laugh though!

hi humbug I used to but I think that woman was really blowing things out of proportion. Even if the ink were poisonous which I doubt at all that it was what little you used to write on your hand would not hurt you. breathing in the air where smokers are smoking their fool head off would more likely do harm to you. lol.That's one thing I never worried about these people with their cockamamie ideas about this thing is bad for you , that is good for you and they did not research it and are not doctors or medical personnel.So I save humbug to all those people with their cautions. bah humbug.

Well if that's true I wouldn't be alive because as a child I would draw a lot and get ink and marker color as well as pencil all over myself fingers and write smiley faces on my hands, and sometimes I still write things on my hand and skin not smiley faces but other things such as phone numbers or other info.

I did that sometimes but I wash it after. It maybe true that it give a bad things in our health because those are chemicals.

i dont think so, because i dont write that much especially now because im just always at home...

My mother always did this so I think thats where I learned it from. Once in a great great while I will do this but I try not to. I dont want to do it and have my kids see it. I also think it looks trashy to have pen written all over us. I was always told that it wasent good for us to do it because we could get ink poisining but who knows.

I used to write on myself all the time when I was younger and I've had no problems with it. Mostly, I think that that's just something people started saying to deter kids from drawing on themselves. I probably inhale more poison when I breathe than when I wrote on myself. Writing on yourself isn't going to do anything.

For me poisoning is the way you are not love to your self it is a big sin to Jehovah God because he is showed love to your self then get love to your self also.

I've never grown into the habit of writing things on my hand. I just wrote things on a piece of paper, because the mere act of writing it down was good enough for me to remember whatever details I need to remember. The piece of paper I usually loose 5 minutes after writing it down. It is interesting to read about possibly poisoning one's self when they write on their hands, as my kid is fond of doing it. Maybe I should tell him not to.

Poisoning yourself?? I think she just make a joke on it. She did not mean really it will poison yourself.(^^)I write some notes on my hands too but it really rare-only when I don't have papers or my cellphone as I just write a text and keep it in my cellphone now and I am not worried it will poison myself because I don't think it will bring harm.

I knew ink was not edible and it was bad but somehow it never stopped me When i was in middle school, we had to write with ink pens. It was funny and also fun I must add that by the end of the day all of our hands would be filled with inks, not only hands but school uniforms too!! and sometimes when the nib wouldn't work, we used to pull them with our teeth resulting to have ink all over the teeth and inside mouth and the carboardy taste of ink would linger! Wow when I think of it now it does sound dangerous!