It is in the synthetic neurotoxic pyrethroid class of medicine
Pyrethroids are synthetic compounds made to mimic the pyrethrins that are isolated from chrysanthemum flowers
Mild burning, stinging, tingling
It works by killing the scabies mite
Its residual half-life in soil is between 7 days and 8 months, depending on the soil type, with a low mobility in most soil types
Two applications of treatment with permethrin cream are needed, one week apart
Thoroughly wet the hair and scalp with the permethrin lotion
There are six: pyrethrin I, pyrethrin II, cinerin I, cinerin II, jasmolin I, and jasmolin II
Pyrethroids are used as commercial and household insecticides
Recommendations
It has low acute toxicity to humans through the inhalation and dermal routes, but to insects it acts as a neurotoxin causing paralysis
It can be applied as a cold-fogging or as a thermal-fogging solution to provide a fast knockdown and residual control of mosquitoes and other flying insects
The extract is usually diluted on farms with kerosene to a pyrethrin strength of about 0
The most common commercial product involving permethrin is the distinctive yellow Sawyer product
Drug class: Scabicides and Pediculicides
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They are 2250 times more toxic to insects than to vertebrates due to insects’ smaller size, lower body temperature and more sensitive sodium channels
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04 Delayed and immediate effects as well as chronic effects from short and long-term exposure Chronic toxicity Effects are expected to be similar to those that are seen with acute toxicity
25% Permethrin is a granulated insecticide for insect control in lawns, and around homes, commercial buildings and industrial buildings