is napthalene harmful
Naphthalene is a toxic substance. Toxic effects vary from individual to individual (in adults, ingestion of 6 grams has led to significant toxicity or no symptoms at all; in children, in whom absorption occurs rapidly, a reported dose of 2 grams has been fatal) and they act at a both local and a systemic level.oxicity may be in the newborn due to their inability to conjugate both naphthalene and bilirubin leading to kernicterus (it is a bilirubinic encephalopathy with bilirubin infiltration in some areas of the encephalon, especially the basal ganglia and the hippocampus).