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Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

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Re: Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

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Post by sublinear »

fhe wrote: post #17

I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the more common local fish species. I wonder if there is something special about tilapia fish skin, or it was simply the species on which the technique was developed, and nobody bothered…

What's special is that tilapia is probably cheaper than even the local fish since it's farmed in massive quantities and shipped all over the world as food.

If other fish skins were tried it must have been similar results.

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Post by theblackknight_ »

primaprashant wrote: post #7

They used this exact treatment in an episode of The Good Doctor, S01E06. Original air date: October 30, 2017 https://the-good-doctor.fandom.com/wiki/Not_Fake

I was thinking same, Jared saving that girls skin after burn.

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Post by Auracle »

tehjoker wrote: post #18
skissane wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was having a conversation about this with my father-a retired pharmaceutical industry executive-a few weeks back, about why certain generic prescription medication formulations were unavailable in Australia yet sold in New Zealand. He explained to me that the Australian pharmaceutical regulator (the TGA) and its New Zealand equivalent (Medsafe) had very different regulatory philosophies. Medsafe, if a major interna…

Medsafe's strategy only works so long as there is at least one stringent regulator though.

I would think for a country like Australia a more moderate approach would be to approve things that were approved by other countries and have been in use for some amount of time - say, 5 years or so - apart from the things they directly approve.

Re: Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

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Post by hu3 »

dmurray wrote: post #19
hu3 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is not an improvement on existing methods... a case of it being all they have to work with. But the article says Tilapia skin is better in multiple aspects: > "We got a great surprise when we saw that the amount of collagen proteins, types 1 and 3, which are very important for scarring, exist in large quantities in tilapia skin, even more than in human skin and other skins," Maciel said. "Another factor we dis…

It says it's different to human skin in multiple aspects. Do I need more collagen or more moisture in my skin? I would expect evolution made some pretty good choices around default human skin for typical human activities, and if more moisture was obviously good, I would already have it. Maybe tilapia skin is better for people who spend 24 hours a day swimming in lakes.

> It says it's different to human skin in multiple aspects.

No it says "even more than in human skin and other skins". Not different.

> Do I need more collagen or more moisture in my skin?

For this context? Yes? Clearly the article answers that already. I even included in my first reply but you'll have a third chance to read it:

> ...which are very important for scarring...

And your attempt to move the goal post fails miserably as well. Or do you think humans evolved to perfection by thinking this:

> I would expect evolution made some pretty good choices around default human skin for typical human activities, and if more moisture was obviously good, I would already have it.

I don't think you are debating in good faith. Good luck.

Re: Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

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Post by MeteorMarc »

fhe wrote: post #17

I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the more common local fish species. I wonder if there is something special about tilapia fish skin, or it was simply the species on which the technique was developed, and nobody bothered…

No need for antibiotics because the fish got ample amounts while growing up in the farm.

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Post by guessmyname »

fhe wrote: post #17

I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the more common local fish species. I wonder if there is something special about tilapia fish skin, or it was simply the species on which the technique was developed, and nobody bothered…

> I thought this a pretty mature technique? […]

Yes, it is very mature. The article was written in 2017.

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