skin donation? - ThinnerTimes

brittany · 04-05-2007, 10:25 PM

Has anyone done a skin donation? This is something I found out about in my area we have two hospitals in my local are that specialize in burn victims. You can go to these places and donate your extra skin but I am wondering what you look like when you are finished.

Linette · 04-05-2007, 10:28 PM

Wow--I have never heard of that--very interesting! I am going to ahve to research it--it seems like an awesome thing to do if you are having surgery to remove excess skin anyway!

sierrab · 04-05-2007, 10:37 PM

man i hate to say this but how would a mo peeps skin work after being streched out ?

cnvh · 04-06-2007, 05:50 AM

Sorry, but it's an Urban Legend. When they graft skin for burn patients, it's only the outermost layer (very thin, almost like paper), not the full depth of skin that a WLS post-op would have removed. And like Christina said, the skin we would have removed is not in the greatest condition to begin with.

I believe in most cases, skin grafts from burn victims comes either from the patient themselves (from a non-burned area of their body) or from cadavers.

brittany · 04-06-2007, 07:39 AM

I would think it is true it was brought up in my nutrition class and one of the ladies had it done..... I was too afraid to ask to see her scars.... the nutritionist said they had several patients that have done this. I will have to find out more. I know our burn unit here in Dallas has people sent to it that other hospitals can not help and some so badly burned they do not have skin of their own to use. I doubt that all of our stretched out skin would be useable and I am unsure how it is harvested after removal I will look into it and let you know more. I was curios what it looked like.