No antifreeze is a very dangerously toxic substance for your dog due to the ethylene glycol content.
Dog eats lip balm.
Ok so she ate some plastic too.
Even just a tiny puddle on your driveway getting licked up by your dog can prove fatal.
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If your dog ate small quantities of plastic like you d find on a lip balm tube then there shouldn t be a problem and it should come out when he goes to the bathroom.
While there are gastrointestinal irritants in it menthol phenol and camphor on the whole the ingredients will just lead to a little diarrhea.
A lip balm containing xylitol would most likely contain enough to be lethal to a small puppy or toy breed seeing as a single piece of chewing gum can kill a small dog.
He may also throw it up.
If she just ate the lip balm i am not concerned about a true toxicity.
My dog just ate a small tube of blistex medicated lip balm.
And it doesn t take much antifreeze ingestion to kill a dog.
Lip balm can cause gastrointestinal upset mild diarrhea.
Check the packaging now and if it contained xylitol go straight to the vet.
You ll need to do a little research and determine if your dog simply ate the chapstick or lip balm itself or if he also ingested the plastic packaging and or the tube it came in.
Might be best to see a vet if.
However if a vast quantity of any non chocolate flavored lip balm is eaten by the dog they may vomit afterwards but it should not cause any longer term problems.