According to the WHO, an estimated 180,000 burn deaths occur each year, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries.
A doctor from Argentina has published a video on social networks where he talks about the use of tilapia skin in countries like Brazil to treat burn patients.
According to what the doctor commented, it has been shown in several studies that the use of tilapia skin benefits healing thanks to the fact that tilapia skin is rich in type 1 collagen, in addition to infecting infections, which decreases the use of antibiotics in patients with burns.
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Studies support the use of tilapia skin for burns
According to the study “Innovative treatment using tilapia skin as a xenograft for partial thickness burns after a gunpowder explosion” published in the National Library of Medicine, Nile tilapia fish skin has been suggested as a biologic material option for burn treatment. Colony-Forming Units found in skin samples from tilapia fish before the chemical sterilization process indicated the presence of normal, non-infectious microbiota.
Nile tilapia fish skin also exhibited high type I collagen composition, morphology similar to human skin, and high tensile strength and extension at break. Despite these characteristics and their enormous significance and potential, there is no description in any medical literature so far of the use of Nile tilapia fish skin in the treatment of human burns.
For the study, the results of a 23-year-old male patient, without comorbidities, who arrived at the burn treatment center after a thermal injury caused by contact with the flames of a gunpowder explosion, were used.
The patient had superficial partial-thickness burns on the right upper limb and deep partial-thickness burns on the left upper limb. Tilapia skin was applied during the lesions, which led to complete re-epithelialization at 12 and 17 days of treatment, respectively. There was no need to change the dressings and no side effects were observed.
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