Is it possible to get lead poisoning from drawing on your hand too much?!


Question: Is it possible to get lead poisoning from drawing on your hand too much?
I did this in order to get my dry-ed up ball point pen to work and was just thinking and wondering if it's possible that someone can actually get lead poisoning if they did this way too much? I'm not sure how exactly that you get lead poisoning but I know that you can threw the mouth but I didn't know if it was possible to get it just by drawing on your hand. In my elementary years at school people drew on their hands because it was something that a lot of people did and I didn't because I wasn't sure if it could be harm full but now I'm 19 years old and still don't know this answer to that question. so I guess I was just curious if that could actually happen? I know I probably repeated myself lol but can someone tell me if this is true or not?

Answers:

No. Pencils are made of Graphite, and pens are like getting a tattoo, harmless.



Unless you have a very old pen there shouldn't be any lead in it. Products now go through testing to make sure that they are safe for people and if they aren't they have warning labels so you can just differ to that



it wont give you led poising but it may hurt your hand!!!!! you will only get led poisining if u eat led!!!

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no, pencils aren't made out of lead anymore, they use graphite in them specifically for that reason.



Pen ink does not contain lead, nor does pencils.



Not if there's no lead in whatever you're drawing on your hand with. Which I can say with near certainty there isn't.



No. There is no lead in ink or pencils anymore.



As long as it doesn't get into your blood I think you're fine.




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