Creole is as dangerous to humans as it is to animals. This is a fairly strong poison that is used in animal husbandry. When working with it, it is necessary to strictly observe safety precautions: in case of contact with skin, rinse immediately with water, in case of contact with eyes and mucous membranes - rinse and immediately run to the doctor. In the process of using the drug, it is forbidden to smoke and eat. During processing, all personnel are removed from the premises.
Creolin is mainly used for processing goat, sheep, livestock buildings to destroy helminth eggs and insects. Due to its antimicrobial effect, it is widely used in veterinary medicine as a disinfectant. The degree of danger is third class.
Creole in its composition is naphthalene and a number of excipients (100 grams of the substance contains eleven and a half grams of naphthalene, coal oil, caustic alkali, ichthyol, soap, and rosin). I must say that this substance has been used as an effective insecticide for a long time (precisely due to the fact that it contains valuable coal oils).
As early as the end of the 19th century, an emulsion of these oils was used to kill aphids during winter spraying of agricultural plants. With the beginning of the 20th century, such an insecticide began to be actively used in Denmark, Holland and Germany. Since the 20s of the twentieth century, the tool has gained popularity in England and even in the United States. Creolin is most effective in combating eggs of thistles and aphids, and is also used (albeit less efficiently) to destroy bedbugs, butterflies and ticks. Currently, a number of insecticides are produced on the basis of coal oils.
Creolin treatment is effective for the development of infectious processes (this applies to the stomach), as well as for atony, cleansing heavily soiled and already infected wounds, for treating scabies (for this, the product is added to bath water, when washed, to solutions and ointments). Creolin is not used for people, 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.
There is simply no “medical” version of the substance, however, many craftsmen continue to use creolin for people trying to cure cancer. They advertise it on the Internet, and even actively sell it. 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 or evidence that phenol-free creolin has a therapeutic effect. There are only repetitions of examples of “miraculous” healings. True, no one has ever seen healed. The use of this substance in the treatment of cancerous tumors can cause only increased intoxication and the danger of banal poisoning.
The substance creolin for humans and animals is no longer used for any purpose. It does not have a homeopathic or allergenic effect, does not irritate the eyes, is not an embryotoxic, teratogenic or mutagenic substance.