Generally, patients with burns require skin grafting if the area is large or the area is exposed. The sources of skin are roughly divided into allogeneic skin, autologous skin and artificial dermis.

Among them, allogeneic skin is skin from other people or animals, such as pig skin.

Autologous skin is your own skin, such as transplanting skin from your thighs or buttocks to your face or hands. But this only applies to small area burns. If it is a large area, your own skin alone is not enough.

Artificial dermis is simulated skin made with modern technology. It does not really grow with the skin. It protects the wound and will fall off after the new skin grows. The higher the degree of simulation of artificial leather, the more expensive it is.

For patients with large-area burns, many will choose allogeneic skin in terms of cost.

Recently, a video of Henan Zhoukou Port District Hospital transplanting pig skin for burn patients has been circulated on the Internet. In the video, a whole pig is placed on the operating table, and two doctors are preparing to push it into the operating room for skinning. The pig's skin will be transplanted to burn patients.

Some people may wonder, pig skin is so thick, can it be transplanted into a human body? Will it fit? Won't it be objectionable?

In fact, pig skin transplantation is a technology that has existed for a long time. After all, pig skin is very cheap. And pig skin transplanted to humans will not grow together with human skin. For burn patients, pig skin transplantation can cover the burn wound, avoid a large amount of loss of body fluids, heat energy and nutrients, reduce the chance of infection, and facilitate the growth of autologous skin.

When new skin tissue grows out, the transplanted pig skin will fall off automatically due to metabolism.

In other words, even if a pig skin is transplanted into a person, it will have no impact on the person's future life, and it will not really carry a pig skin.

The choice of pigskin is mostly due to cost considerations. After all, a pig only costs a few thousand yuan, so the skin is cheaper. Compared with artificial leather, which often costs hundreds of thousands, it is really not worth it. Worth mentioning.