hexylresorcinol

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Hexylresorcinol is a crystalline phenol with the chemical formula C₁₂H₁₈O₂. It is used as an antiseptic and anthelmintic.1

Resorcinol, a related compound, is used in the manufacture of resins, plastics, dyes, medicine, and other organic chemical compounds. It is also employed in photographic developers and cosmetics, and in medicine, it is used externally in ointments and lotions as an antifungal. Hexylresorcinol was first used in 1924.21

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Hexylresorcinol has no serious contraindications, is effective against 80 percent of the worms, and removes 90 percent of A. lumbricoides on a single treatment. Mass treatment, with other anthelminthics, of large groups of heavily infected persons has been successful in reducing the incidence of hookworm,…
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Hexylresorcinol has no serious contraindications, is effective against 80 percent of the worms, and removes 90 percent of A. lumbricoides on a single treatment. Mass treatment, with other anthelminthics, of large groups of heavily infected persons has been successful in reducing the incidence of hookworm,…
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