Doctors in Brazil are using an alternative treatment to treat severe burns. Researchers are now experimenting with a new treatment that uses the tilapia fish skin.
This unique skin replacement method that may also help the healing process.
It is an unorthodox process they say can relieve the pain of burn victim and cut medical costs.
Frozen pig skin and even human tissue have been placed so long on the critical burns to keep them moist and allow the transfer of a protein that promotes healing i.e collagen.
Doctors wrap this child’s burnt skin with sterilized tilapia fish skin…..
A patient with burnt skin who is undergoing a treatment with tilapia fish skin at Dr. Jose Frota Institute in the northeastern coastal city of Fortaleza, Brazil!!
Advantages of this unique treatment:
a) Less infections
b) Less pain
c) Faster healing
d) Great moisture of the skin
e) Low cost
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