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Liquid Paraffin Isn't Sold in Wales

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This isn't usually the type of story that's usually discussed on SW however I feel Wales is being wronged and people I know are being treated badly, I had a friend of mine that died of bowel cancer aged 54 years old he blamed it on the fact that he wasn't able to purchase Liquid paraffin over the counter at any of his local chemists.

I know of two young women who have had to undergo Colostomies as a result of not being able to purchase liquid paraffin they both have Stoma bags their lives have changed and are naturally angry about the Welsh NHS.

I know having visited London a few times that Liquid paraffin is available in Chemists over the counters in London what a stupid part of the world I live in.

If your travelling to Wales for a holiday or on a business trip and suffer from constipation be warned you won't be able to buy any liquid paraffin in Wales, I have considered writing to the World Health Organisation about this disgrace personally I think it's a violation of citizens human rights.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

At first I was very very confused because here in Canada liquid paraffin is lamp oil aka kerosene.

senghenydd · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow No it's a medicine for constipation.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@senghenydd Naming conventions for different things have very different meanings in different regions.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow They are both paraffins. Paraffin describes a class of hydrocarbons called alkanes which have the formula

C(n) H (2n+2)

where n is a positive integer. This means that a paraffin can be a gas (n<=5), a light or dense liquid, or a solid (n>=15) depending on the size of n.

https://www.britannica.com/science/paraffin-hydrocarbon

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@ninalanyon Good to know. Haven't gone through anything like that since high school chemistry class.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Same here! The Nuffield A-level chemistry course in senior high school in England in the early 70s was very good. It was my second best subject. A lot of experimental work, very little rote learning. Of course I have forgotten most of the details now, fifty years later. I think I still have one of the textbooks somewhere though.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@ninalanyon I have actually gotten back into it a bit since I started getting into doing my own darkroom work for photography and learning historic processes too.

A friend who went to uni for chemistry is a photographer here too and he is working on safe alternatives to very toxic chemicals used in old photography methods.