From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-09-17 22:26:56 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: learning a bit about white petroleum jelly/white petrolatum
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I got a bit a question so here is the answer:
EVERYTHING I could find from expert sites said that the petroleum jelly you buy in your
pharmacy is WHITE petroleum jelly/ white petrolatum. When it turns yellowish with age that
does NOT make it "Yellow Petrolatum/Yellow Petroleum Jelly". Yellow Petroleum Jelly is a
different category which was never as processed in the first place and is always yellow, plus
it is only sold for industrial use same as brown petroleum jelly. White petroleum jelly that
turns yellow with age is simply old white petroleum jelly, just as a brunette who turns white
is not a person who was a life-long platinum blonde.
White petroleum jelly is used in pet laxative gels because it can't be digested. Because it is
not digested it also snags fur and some small ingested foreign objects. (Even with certain
small ones -- for example floss or tinsel -- surgery can be better when the item lodges
wrong. Floss or tinsel can slice intestine (just as it can do to cake) when intestinal
contractions take place if it lodges at one of the very many bends, for example. (I have
heard of tinsel swallowing cats and dogs but not of a ferret who has swallowed it YET (could
still happen, sadly), though I have personally heard of a very few ferrets who swallowed
string or sampled used dental floss.)
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