What is the weight of our skin?

Brain or lung is the organ that many of the center of attention. But what about the skin, do you know how much weight?

Skin consists of three layers. Namely epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue. The thickness of the skin also varies throughout the body. For example, smooth skin around the eyes just as thick as a few sheets of paper and knees at the feet only as thick as a pencil eraser.

Skin thinking about different characteristics in many areas, but the skin is an organ and not all skins 'fleshy'. As an organ, the skin covering the human body, including nails and hair. In total, approximately 16% of total body weight is skin.

Most adult skin skin weighing 10 kg or more. Of course, the skin varies depending on the weight of its owner, a person thinner, lighter weight leather. If the average adult skin stretched, the skin capable of covering two square meters.

After the skin, the heaviest human organ is the intestine (3.75 kg), lung (2.5 kg), liver (1.6 kg), brains (1.5 kg) and cardiac (0.3 kg).

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donate organs or tissue

There are some people volunteer to donate organs or tissue to others after death. This is of course very happy for people who have long waited for 'gift' from people who have died. Organs and tissues what can be donated after people die?

Matching modern networks, surgical techniques, as well as anti-rejection drugs have allowed the miracle took place in the form of transplant (transplant), organ and tissue.

There are many people waiting for organs other people helped him survive or improve the quality of life. But the number of people needing organ transplants far more even than people who want to voluntarily donate their organs after death.

According to the Ministry of Health and Human Services U.S., from one human body can provide 50 opportunities for the transplant.

Organs:
1. Eye
2. Kidney
3. Lungs
4. Heart
5. Heart
6. Pancreas

Body Network:
1. Bone
2. Heart valve
3. Skin
Organs that can help prolong the life is the heart or liver. Heart and liver transplant could help other people who have heart failure or heart survive longer.

While the eyes, kidneys and skin to improve the quality of life of others. Donors can give the blind eye to the opportunity to look back. Donor skin help severe burn patients and help people suffering from renal kidney failure so as not to rely on dialysis (dialysis).

Donating organs to another person indeed a very noble act. But unfortunately not everyone agrees with these actions, especially the family.

The decision to become an organ donor is a decision that requires courage. Moreover, issues norms, ethics and culture is still very thick as in Indonesia.

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