Looking For Certified Gluten Free Ink

[Davros]

Puts Biologist hat on --

 

Whilst gluten free products are so essential for those with coeliac disease, those products have no extra health benefit for non-coeliac sufferers. They're not bad for you. They're not extra good for you, but the incremental sales of those products to those who don't need them are good for the vendor.

 

Also, your skin and your gut have the same cellular origins, so it is quite possible that something that irritates your insides might also irritate your outside. Just as Urushi affects some people more than others. So, the OP's question might not be all that silly.

 

As well, while I don't have psoriasis, I do have eczema, but the only side-effect of ink spills I've had is that sections of my skin (often my fingers) turn bright blue (or green, or brown, or black, or red) for a couple of days.

 

Finally, gluten is a protein. Protein feeds micro-bugs like bacteria and molds, so it's probably good to make sure your ink is free of all proteins, including gluten (as well as beef steak, fish fillet and fried chicken (although commercial fried chicken is more fats, salts and cholesterol than protein)).

 

Takes Biologist hat off.

 

 

Immunologist nit-picking hat on:

While gut and skin share an origin, the root of protein reaction is a fault with the immune system. Gut and skin are immunological distinct regions, and generally the reactive T cells are local, not systemic. (This could change if, for example, a big population of your T cells was wiped out, but such catastrophes are pretty limited.)

 

A skin reaction is more likely given an existing sensitivity elsewhere, but probably would need a series of events and a good deal of time to develop.

 

(I would be *much* more concerned about ingesting something that you have skin reactions to. There is a far greater possibility for a reaction, and a severe reaction at that.)

[hbdk]

Our local baker developed skin reactions to flour - not very good in that job, so yes, I can imagine a problem - if you can find an ink containing gluten

 

On a more serious note - most European/American inks have very low levels of toxicity if any. Not so sure about Japanese - and certainly not sure about Chinese inks!?

I have seen the Diamine MSDS sheet - basically it states that the ink if safe unless you drink several gallons - not in those exact words, but you get the point...

Edited December 31, 2014 by hbdk

[Fabienne]

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1361419557__tsa.jpg

 

That must be the Akkerman Kakin-Poopin-Braun ink, right?

[garyglenn]

I'm a doctor that treats gluten issues daily. The problem arises from the hybridization of wheat in 1968 which changed the molecular structure of the proteins and enzymes in wheat. The “new” wheat can break down the lining of the small intestine leading to intestinal permeability. This is what produces the immune response as molecules which aren’t supposed to be in the blood gain access. Wheat grown France and Italy is not the 1968 hybrid and does not produce this reaction. Unless your ink is somehow getting into your gut and or your blood stream, gluten free wouldn’t have any consequence either way.

 

Hope this helps.

[amberleadavis]

That must be the Akkerman Kakin-Poopin-Braun ink, right?

 

 

No, but I'm sure that what it looked like coming out.

 

That was Voorhoot Violet.

[RMN]

I'm a doctor that treats gluten issues daily. The problem arises from the hybridization of wheat in 1968 which changed the molecular structure of the proteins and enzymes in wheat. The “new” wheat can break down the lining of the small intestine leading to intestinal permeability. This is what produces the immune response as molecules which aren’t supposed to be in the blood gain access. Wheat grown France and Italy is not the 1968 hybrid and does not produce this reaction. Unless your ink is somehow getting into your gut and or your blood stream, gluten free wouldn’t have any consequence either way.

 

Hope this helps.

Interesting theory, about which I would have many questions.... Alas this is not the forum to discuss these topics at length...

 

 

 

D.ick