# Did you ever lick your own blood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872 "2005-05-07T23:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/1 "2005-05-07T23:19:59Z")
You know, not like some weird vampire fetish or anything, but like, you have a scab, and you pick it and it starts bleeding and you don’t have any tissue handy so you say, “screw it” and just lick the blood off? Jever do that? Tastes sorta funky. Not bad. Sorta sour-salty, iron-ey, kinda. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/2 "2005-05-07T23:23:20Z")
All of the time. It seems so natural to me that I wonder how many people DO NOT do this. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/3 "2005-05-07T23:25:00Z")
Well yeah, doesn’t everyone? I kinda like the taste personally, but I’m not about to deliberately hurt myself to do this. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/4 "2005-05-07T23:31:45Z")
Exactly. Doesn’t everyone? You know, almost any time someone asks one of these kinds of questions, I find myself asking, “Doesn’t everyone do that?” Maybe I’ve just found my niche here at the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/5 "2005-05-07T23:35:13Z")
See, I find myself asking, “EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!” Well, I suppose that’s not a question so much as a exclamative declarative statement of my personal opinion, but let’s not be picky here. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/6 "2005-05-07T23:36:12Z")
You just don’t fit into this particular niche, is all. ---
**Author:** ![AThingWithFeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@AThingWithFeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AThingWithFeathers)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/7 "2005-05-07T23:37:52Z")
Yup. And blood doesn’t taste iron-y, it tastes coppery. Doesn’t everyone know that? Of course, it depends on where the cut is. I tend to suck on my papercuts. (Okay, now I sound weird.) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/8 "2005-05-07T23:41:12Z")
> [@Kendraen Ideals](#): > > Yup. And blood doesn’t taste iron-y, it tastes coppery. Doesn’t everyone know that? I thought only Vulcans had copper blood. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/9 "2005-05-07T23:46:18Z")
I do. It tastes great. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/10 "2005-05-07T23:47:48Z")
Erm, not the copper blood, the licking of my own blood. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/11 "2005-05-07T23:51:27Z")
Of course. It’s called recycling. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/12 "2005-05-08T00:27:39Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > See, I find myself asking, “EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!” > > Well, I suppose that’s not a question so much as a exclamative declarative statement of my personal opinion, but let’s not be picky here. So when you get a cut in your mouth do you then vomit? By the way, the snot that doesn’t come out your nose slides down your throat and past your mouth (and occasionally winds up IN your mouth). My work here is done! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/13 "2005-05-08T00:28:51Z")
What else do you do when you cut your finger?? ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/14 "2005-05-08T00:29:38Z")
Well, I can’t say I’m crazy about the taste, but yeah, pretty much as an automatic reaction. I tell my kids too, when they get a minor cut, to just suck on it. It seems to stop any bleeding pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/15 "2005-05-08T00:33:40Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > What else do you do when you cut your finger?? Start seaching all nearby chili and frozen custard? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/16 "2005-05-08T00:41:50Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > What else do you do when you cut your finger?? I don’t think little finger pricks count. You gotta get a good scab going and lick that puppy. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/17 "2005-05-08T00:43:58Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Start seaching all nearby chili and frozen custard? You’re sick! I like that in a person… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/18 "2005-05-08T00:59:46Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > So when you get a cut in your mouth do you then vomit? > > By the way, the snot that doesn’t come out your nose slides down your throat and past your mouth (and occasionally winds up IN your mouth). > > My work here is done! No no no. I’m not that easily creeped out. First, I can’t remember the last time I had a cut in my mouth. I generally make a habit of not putting objects that could cut me in my mouth. Second, snot doesn’t bother me, I never notice it unless I need to blow my nose. It’s just the idea of intentionally ingesting blood that skeeves me out. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/19 "2005-05-08T01:09:53Z")
Yep, in fact, if I cut my finger or something, it just sort of automatically goes right into my mouth. I heard somewhere once (no cite, so it’s good this isn’t GD) that there are some special amino acids or something in saliva that helps stop bleeding quickly. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-lick-your-own-blood/302872/20 "2005-05-08T01:10:24Z")
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