Uso de la piel de tilapia (Oreochromis spp) como tratamiento en heridas expuestas con pérdida de continuidad en caninos (Canis lupus familiaris)

Abstract

The present study aimed to establish the healing process using tilapia skin as a treatment for exposed wounds in canine patients compared to the effects of using honey bandages as a traditional treatment together with a control group. 21 patients were treated divided into 3 groups (T1 tilapia skin, T2 honey and T3 control), wound closure processes were evaluated at 5, 10 and 15 days in each treatment, the same antibiotic and anti-inflammatory treatment was used in the three groups, it was observed that by means of the Byung Joo scale used to evaluate the closure stage in which the wounds are found, the tilapia skin treatment yielded the best results since on day 10 it presented the 28.60% of the patients already in stage 4, which did not happen with the honey treatment since it had 0% of patients in this stage, in terms of the size of the wound closure it was found that the size of the wounds decreased considerably with the tilapia treatment on day 15 since it had an average wound size of 2.96 cm2 compared to the honey treatment that presented 3.24 cm2 on day 15, with the results obtained regarding costs it can be observed that the tilapia skin treatment had better results compared with the honey treatment, since it had an average of $ 9.79 per patient and the honey treatment $ 14.03 per patient, it should be noted that the control treatment had the lowest cost per patient ($ 5.24) but this is because only antibiotic treatment was applied and anti-inflammatory, but it took longer to heal the wounds.