<div><p>There are a lot of medical procedures that seem a little bizarre to people who aren't doctors, but this one is WAY out there. After Maria da Silva received second degree burns over a good portion of her body, the way the doctors treated it was completely unheard of. </p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3.png" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3_GH_content_550px.png 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>When the doctors were treating her wounds, they offers to wrap her in the skin of the tilapia fish. That's right, covered in fish scales. </p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-1.png" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-1_GH_content_550px.png 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-1_GH_content_650px.png 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-1_GH_content_750px.png 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-1_GH_content_850px.png 850w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Her arms and affected leg were wrapped in the fish skin and then covered in gauze while it attached to her skin. The reason they did this was because the fish skin contains a high level of collagen and high degrees of humidity so it would help speed up the healing process and help her get healthy faster.</p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-2.png" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Eventually as the skin started to heal underneath the layer of fish skin could be pulled back. </p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3.png" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3_GH_content_550px.png 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3_GH_content_650px.png 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3_GH_content_750px.png 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3_GH_content_850px.png 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2263185722-3-3_GH_content_950px.png 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>She has become the first person to be treated in this method, but the positive outcome may lead to more doctors using this method to help burn victims. </p><p></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><div class="migration-wrapper"><amp-iframe sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" layout="responsive" frameborder="0" height="9" width="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftelegraphsciencetech%2Fvideos%2F1404370632908539%2F&show_text=0&width=560"></amp-iframe></div></div><p></p></div>
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