Allergy to natural rubber latex (NRL) gloves in healthcare workers is well recognized, and usually presents as immunological contact urticaria and sometimes anaphylaxis. Latex gloves can also cause allergic contact dermatitis, mostly because of rubber accelerators. As latex sensitivity is well known in healthcare settings, synthetic latex-free gloves are widely used. The most popular latexfree ...

BACKGROUND Kiwifruit allergy has been responsible for a variety of clinical manifestations, ranging from mild reactions, such as localised oral symptoms, to severe systemic symptoms, such as anaphylaxis. No cases of isolated contact urticaria (ICU) due to IgE-mediated allergy to kiwifruit have been reported in the literature so far. Here we describe the first three cases of ICU due to kiwi and ...

The prevalence of natural rubber latex allergy amongst health care workers has been reported to vary between 1 and 40%. This is because different diagnostic criteria have been used on heterogeneous groups of subjects. We have undertaken a cross-sectional study of all 5600 employees in two National Health Service trusts served by one department of occupational health and one department of clinic...

L ATEX allergy emerged as a serious health concern in the 1980s when an alarming number of cases of latex anaphylaxis occurred in patients during general anesthesia. In addition, an even greater number of local allergic reactions occurred in health care workers who wore latex gloves. The incidence of latex anaphylaxis increased dramatically through the mid-1990s, affecting three groups of infan...

Allrgic reaction to natural rubber latex have increased during past 10 years especially among health worker and patients with high exposure to latex allergen. Latex allergy is associsted with clinical or serological cross reactivity to plant derived food allergcn especially tropical fruit for example avocado bannana chestnut kiwi papaya potato and peaches. In this study on health worker among 5...

Hypersensitivity reactions caused by latex products are ascribed to proteins elutingfrom the products, but the detailed properties of the responsible proteins have not been revealed yet. We have speculated that defense-related proteins biosynthesised in a rubber tree comprise the major part of the allergens. The aim of this study is to ascertain whether defense-related proteins are extracted fr...

Our study analyses the sensitisation profile to kiwi allergens in patients suffering from atopic dermatitis with use of ALEX2 Allergy Explorer test. The molecular components latex, banana, avocado, pollen, seeds within latex fruit syndrome was also evaluated. Altogether 100 were examined. incidence clinical reaction observed 15% patients; a combination Act d 1, 2 and 10 gave diagnostic sensitiv...