Vaselinse for skin lumps?
- Thread starter raphael14
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Vaseline will not do anything beneficial.
raphael14
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Eltortu
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raphael14
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camimom
New Member
I dont know. But I know that when people have warts and stuff you have to use a medicated cream... with vasaline not being medicated, i dont think it would work.
Then again.. apparently if you wrap duct tape around a wart you can slough it off over time and it goes away....
lindawaz
New Member
I heard rub a penny on the wart....
Maybe the vasoline is the duct tape/penny method
I am glad it cleared up whatever it was.
camimom
New Member
I heard rub a penny on the wart....
Maybe the vasoline is the duct tape/penny method
I am glad it cleared up whatever it was.
never heard the penny one... Intresting.
Im glad it cleared up too, it just makes me wonder if it really was a fungus.
Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
Be reasonable here please. First, you don't know what the skin lumps were (just had theories). So, you also don't know if they went away on their own or were in fact affected by some ingredient in the Vaseline. You also can't say that Vaseline treats skin lumps in general. There are all kinds of conditions that could form a lump on a cham's skin. Most won't be affected by petroleum jelly. There was no diagnosis, no testing, no definitive reason they went away. Be careful what you state on a public forum...someone desperate for a quick simple answer to a health question may misunderstand your statement and treat their own problem with terrible consequences.
I'm glad they went away but would really suspect they resolved themselves.
raphael14
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As i stated this was my opinion backed up with results, I tried and it worked for me. People should takes what it's written on this forum as advice or guidelines nothing its concrete or guaranteed.People should use common sense more than any of the advices here.
I agree that they probably just resolved on their own and it had little, if anything, to do with Vaseline.
Elizadolots
New Member
Maybe it was something that couldn't heal as long as it was wet. Chameleons spend a lot of time in a damp environment. Sealing it up with vasoline might have been helpful in that regard.
The fact is, we don't have a clue what it was. It's gone now and that's good but it, in no way, suggests that the answer to all lumps/bumps on the skin is to cover them with vasoline.
The fact is, we don't have a clue what it was. It's gone now and that's good but it, in no way, suggests that the answer to all lumps/bumps on the skin is to cover them with vasoline.
Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
So, just how would you define "common sense"? That's the bigger problem. Common sense tells different people different things and that can be huge if we are comparing a newbie's sense to a 10 year veteran. Everyone touts common sense but no one can demonstrate it across the board.
Common sense would never suggest to me that putting Vaseline on a cham's skin lump was treatment for anything. Your sense was different than mine. I would have the lump biopsied by a vet and then decide what to do based on whatever the tests told me: an abscess, calcium deposit, tumor, scar tissue, an encapsulated parasitic worm, cyst, articular gout, healed vertebral fracture......
