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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsTreating animal burn victims with fish skins
I'm a sucker for animals and was watching a veterinarian show when they treated a dog with severe burns over 50 percent of his body with a radical new treatment I'd never seen before - stapling fish skin (specifically tilapia) to the burned areas to promote healing. With this approach skin that would normally take weeks to heal can heal in around 5 days. Here's an article:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/dogs-cats-rescued-california-camp-fire-heal-fish-skins
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Treating animal burn victims with fish skins (Original Post)
groundloop
Nov 2019
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Fla Dem
(23,637 posts)1. Great news. So happy for the pups and kits. But I just want to know,
do they grow back fur or scales?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. Fascinating. Will this be useful for humans, too?
Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)3. I saw the show and was amazed.
After healing, the dog was a happy Alaskan camper. Believe the show was, Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet.
Bayard
(22,040 posts)4. WONDERFUL!
Wonder if this would work on the burned koala's?