Greg Simpson, [30 Jan 2024 at 19:17:31]: Hi all any suggestions on treating captive carnivores with burn wounds on feet and face? Joel Alves, [30 Jan 2024 at 20:14:07]: I know there’s been a lot of success with tilapia skin bandages. Seems tilapia is something that can be relatively easily sourced in SA from some of the farmers. I’ve enquired and wanted to explore doing it but ran out of time. Nano silver can be used to disinfect without affecting the positive properties of the skin, namely the collagen fibers and structure. Innovative treatment using tilapia skin as a xenograft for partial thickness burns after a gunpowder explosion Rob Jackson, [30 Jan 2024 at 20:19:27]: I think Henry has used it, seem to remember pictures on this group. On Johan Marais's advice, calcium alginate worked well under rhino nose plate, I use it on big degloving wounds in dogs. You can reduce bandage change frequency. I am sure it would work on burns. Annie Mears, [31 Jan 2024 at 09:01:57]: We recently treated a very large deep burn wound on a lion with just oral antibiotics and pain relief. The carers also sprayed Effivet onto it from a distance whilst the lion was eating twice a day. It’s taken a month or so but it looks absolutely fine with really very little intervention How it looked initially It got significantly worse before it got better. The lion debrided it himself quite effectively and then with oral medication and topical Effivet it granulated and contracted, and then healed over very well
