February 23, 2012

New Technology For Healing Burns

Second-degree burn caused by contact with boil...

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Anyone who has had a burn knows that it is incredibly painful. When the burn is bad enough, usually skin grafts are required. It can take weeks for these skin grafts to completely form, and in the meantime, the immune system is vulnerable for the burn victim.

There is a skin spray gun technology that has started to be tested on burn victims. One of the victims was able to have his skin fully healed within four days. It is a miraculous discovery.

The technology uses the patient’s own stem cells, and within one and a half hours, the cells are isolated, the solution is created and applied. The results are amazing. Many of the pictures show that there is no sign at all that there was ever a burn injury.

It would be fantastic to be able to have this technology widely available when there is a patient that has received a bad burn. Being able to have your own cells regenerate what you need is amazingly simple. It makes sense to go with this more effective route, that encourages faster healing and involved much less pain. It is still in the research and testing phases, but once it is proven to be effective I am certain that doctors of burn victims will be singing its praises.

There is no enough that can be said about the miraculous way that the human body can be healed when these techniques are applied. Imagine how it must feel to not have the scarring that can result from very bad burns.

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