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TLDR; Its a fantastic substitute for bandages in the sense that you don't need to take off the fish skin everyday. Its also better are retaining moisture in t
by max_ 9mo ago
TLDR;
Its a fantastic substitute for bandages in the sense that you don't need to take off the fish skin everyday.
Its also better are retaining moisture in the burn wounds than cotton badages.
No need for antibiotics, painkillers etc
Its also really cheap. Fish farms regard them as waste.
- account42 9mo ago> Fish farms regard them as waste. I have only seen tilapia sold whole - the skin is one of the best parts when you fry them.
- subscribed 9mo agoSame here. Not with just tilapia, but pretty much every fish.
- conductr 9mo agoI think any farmed animal is or should have no waste. Even if it’s turned into cat food the skin is most definitely not just waste, there’s uses out there. However, if it is as cheap and readily available as cat food then that’s great for burn victims too.
- AdmiralAsshat 9mo agoHow expensive is the sterilization process, though? That would be my primary concern if tilapia-skin bandages started to get widely available/mass-produced: that unscrupulous vendors would cut corners during sterilization, and then the burn victims would get nasty infections from remnant bacteria on the tilapia skin.
- Scoundreller 9mo agoDunno what method they use, but gamma irradiation is pretty cheap at scale