In cases where external body tissues have been destroyed beyond the body's natural ability to repair effectively and quickly (such as occurs in many physical trauma events and also with severe tissue infections), a doctor/surgeon may elect to use healthy tissues from another part of the body to greatly augment the healing process of damaged tissues. 

Not only does this method speed the healing process of the body, but the donor tissue, having covered the original wound site, greatly helps to reduce the chance of infection at the injured site.  The skin graft donor site is the original location of the borrowed tissue.
 
However, this process also allows for the possibility of complications at the donor site.

Not only is the healing process at this location quite painful and lengthy, there is a new risk of infection which gradually subsides as the new skin develops. 

Complications at skin graft donor sites are rare, but not as rare as anyone would like. 

Although donor sites in general heal with fewer problems than burns, they should be regarded as wounds that deserve optimal treatment. 

It has been shown that the occluding of wounds leads to better healing than exposure to air.

Therefore, occlusive dressings should also be used for the treatment of donor sites, instead of the still often used materials like tulle gauze which, upon removal, cause destruction of the wound and pain to the patient.

The Moist Exposed Burn Therapy for burn. puts forward the five conditions for ideal treatment of the wound, viz., 

• to keep the wound moist but not soaked 
• to expel the necrotic layer through liquefied mode from superficies toward the underlying tissue at the peak of its reaction. 
• timefy and free drainage of discharge in the wound with the aid of drugs. 
• continuous supply of fresh remedy at concentration under the action of drug. 
• to isolate the wound with liquid cream and oil layer so that the dicharge might be expelled in time and thus the won nd can be protected from in isolated from the air and filthy materials without being soaked.

Case Report:

Improved Healing of Split Thickness Skin Graft Donor Sites by MEBO Split thickness skin grafting (STSG) is a frequently used technique for covering soft tissue and skin defects. Its wide range of applications makes it valuable not only to plastic and reconstructive surgeons but also to other surgical specialties.

Split-Thickness Skin Graft Donor Site Dressing with MEBO A Padgett electric dermatome was used in all patients to harvest a skin graft 0.12 in thick.MEBO was applied to half the split-thickness skin graft donor site surface area at the end of surgery in a thick layer, and was then covered by a thin, nonocclusive, semiopen dressing.