The substance creolin for humans is just as dangerous as for animals. This is a fairly strong poison, which is used in livestock. When working with it, you must strictly observe safety precautions: in case of contact with skin, rinse immediately with water, contact with eyes and mucous membranes - flush and immediately run to the doctor. During the use of the drug it is prohibited to smoke and eat. During processing, all personnel are removed from the premises.
Creolin is mainly used for processing wool of goats, sheep, livestock premises to destroy eggs of helminths and insects. Due to its antimicrobial effect, it is widely used in veterinary medicine as a disinfectant. The degree of his danger is third class.
Creolin in its composition is naphthalene and a number of auxiliary substances (100 grams of the substance contains eleven and a half grams of naphthalene, coal oil, caustic alkali, ichthyol, soap, rosin). It must be said that as an effective insecticide this substance has been used for a long time (precisely due to the fact that it contains valuable coal oils).
At the end of the 19th century, an emulsion of these oils was used to kill aphids during winter spraying of agricultural plants. Since the beginning of the 20th century, such an insecticide has been actively used in Denmark, Holland and Germany. Since the twenties of the twentieth century, the tool has gained popularity in England and even in the United States. Creolin is most effective in fighting eggs of hawks and aphids, and is also used (albeit less efficiently) for the destruction of eggs of bedbugs, butterflies and ticks. At present, a number of insecticides are produced on the basis of coal oils.
Treatment with creolin is effective in the development of infectious processes (this all applies to the stomach), as well as in atony, cleaning heavily contaminated and already infected wounds, for the treatment of scabies (this is added to water in baths, washing, solutions and ointments). Creolin is not used for humans, the only exception is the washing of infected wounds (1-2% solution). In this case, healing is possible. However, there are many other, effective and much safer drugs for the same purpose.
No "medical" version of the substance simply does not exist, but many folk craftsmen continue to use creolin for people when trying to cure cancer. Advertise it on the Internet, and even actively sell. Woe-healers recommend to breed the purchased "medicine" only in milk and take, of course, inside. The prescribed dose (one drop) gradually increases to ten drops, and then can decrease again to one. There is no evidence and evidence that creolin-free phenol has a therapeutic effect. There are only repetitions of examples of "miraculous" healings. True, no one ever healed was healed. Admission of this substance in the treatment of cancerous tumors can cause only increased intoxication and the risk of banal poisoning.
The substance creolin for humans and animals is not used anymore for any purpose. It does not possess a homeopathic or allergic effect, does not irritate the eyes, is not embryotoxic, teratogenic or mutagenic.