Kerosene as an antiseptic?

[Adventure Wolf]

That sounds like it would BURN (no pun intended)! I never want to try that.

[Roshansmith]

When I was a kid, every time my dad or me got a cut, he would pour aome kerosene on the wound. And please do not try this just because I posted this. But the funny thing is it never made us sick, and the wound never got infected.
Has anybody ever heard of this?

Growing up in Sri Lanka my mum used kerosene for all sorts of wounds and it worked like a treat .

[Rick]

If kerosene were a valuable wound treatment doctors and hospitals would use it.

[Tokwan]

Yep..in my youger days..when I was really really young, it would be used as a emergency antiseptic, from nails in your foot to dog bites, then off to the hospital for the ATT shots..