The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating full thickness burn injuries.

Third degree burn: the skin is black or whitish and insensitive.

Third-degree burns should always get medical treatment.

What is the difference between a second and third-degree burn?

The most severe type, the third degree burn, always causes lasting damage.

Anyone with suspected third-degree burns needs to be immediately taken to hospital.

A third degree burn destroys layers of skin and can cause extensive scarring and keloid formation.

Jerzy Dudek suffered third degree burns as a child in his native Poland.

As such, a second-degree partial-thickness burn can progress to a third-degree burn over time even after initial treatment.

People with third-degree burns that cover a large part of the body can go into shock, stop breathing and die.

(viii) full-thickness burns resulting in consequential impairments, excluding scarring or disfigurement to all surface areas of the body other than the face, that are determined to result in a degree of permanent impairment of 40% or more; or

(f) full-thickness burns resulting in consequential impairments, excluding scarring or disfigurement to all surface areas of the body other than the face, that are determined to result in a degree of permanent impairment of 75% or more;