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The best method for healing burn wounds (also cuts, abrasions, lacerations, and the like) is outlined in these slides: https://www.emilio-moriguchi.or.jp/disea
by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
The best method for healing burn wounds (also cuts, abrasions, lacerations, and the like) is outlined in these slides:
https://www.emilio-moriguchi.or.jp/disease/doc/moist_eng.pdf https://www.emilio-moriguchi.or.jp/disease/doc/moist_eng.pdf
^ Seriously these slides are incredible, check them out! In particular slide 42 shows the result of almost an entire finger tip being regenerated near perfectly. When I first saw the slides my jaw dropped, it seems like the type of thing that only reptiles are supposed to be able to do. Note that the finger could only be regenerated because there was a tiny part of the nail bed remaining; without that the body would have lost the genetic information to reconstruct the finger tip properly.
TL;DR: Moist wound heal by coating the wound in aquaphor (or pure petroleum jelly aka vaseline, but I prefer aquaphor due to its semi occlusive nature rather than fully occlusive as well as a couple of additional anti inflammatory compounds in aquaphor like bisabolol), then cover the wound with saran wrap, or a transparent film dressing like tegaderm, or a hydrocolloid like duoderm extra thin cgf (if using hydrocolloids you can omit the aquaphor because the hydrocolloid won't stick as well and also the natural fluid secreted by the wound fulfills the same role).
The result of this healing method is fast, low-pain, low-scarring wound healing.
An important part of the approach is to never use topical antibiotics nor soap, since those damage the body's wound healing cells more than they retard the pathogens.
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As for maggot therapy specifically, it works for wounds with necrotic tissue. The maggots eat the dead tissue and leave the healthy tissue completely intact. So it's not necessary for burn wounds.
- bayouborne 4y agoI found those slides fascinating as well. A burn scar for a young person person seems particularly debilitating. I think this approach is getting traction elsewhere too using fish skin in place of Saranwrap. i.e. "..mixed dermal burn wounds reports a total reepithelialization time of 17 days after Nile Tilapia AFS grafting" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323726/#:~:text=Acellular%20fish%20skin%20acts%20as,approach%20in%20burn%20wound%20management https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323726/#:~:tex....