Healing the skin and keeping it healthy are of primary importance both in preventing further damage and enhancing the patient's quality of life. Key factors are proper bathing and the application of lubricants, such as creams or ointments, within 3 minutes of bathing. A lukewarm bath helps to cleanse and moisturize the skin without drying it excessively.
Spray-on skin to be trialed on burns victims
Skin Care :: Spray-on skin to be trialed on burns victims
British doctors are about to conduct the first major trial of "spray-on" skin after the technique saved the life of a man with 90 per cent burns.The surgeons based at Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead, West Sussex, have been given approval for the first controlled clinical studies of the technique for burns victims and children with scalds.
The treatment involves taking skin from the patient which is then made into a mesh so that it can cover a larger area.
This is placed over the wound and acts as a lattice on which cultured skin cells are sprayed using an aerosol.
The new technique, removes the need for painful, disfiguring skin grafts, and is being developed to treat other injuries which involve significant skin loss.
It apparently speeds up the healing process and reduces scarring.
(Skin Care :: Spray-on skin to be trialed on burns victims published at SpiritIndia on Wednesday, September 7, 2005)
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