A 78-year-old woman visited the division of cardiovascular disease in our hospital. She underwent a cardiac catheter examination, and a Swan-Ganz catheter was inserted. Several minutes later, she developed anaphylactic shock. She had no past history of latex allergy, but did have a banana allergy. Skin prick tests showed a positive reaction to an extract of latex gloves and an extract of the ba...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(2) Background Itching following contact with latex condoms is a familiar problem in contraceptive services, and popular textbooks still maintain that it is frequently an excuse for avoiding condoms, or that spermicide is to blame.1 If a patient experiences symptoms on contact with other latex items as well as condoms then it would be reasonable to s...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and risk factors for symptoms related to gloves, and the relation between symptoms and immunological evidence of type 1 hypersensitivity to latex in a United Kingdom health care setting. METHODS A cross sectional survey was carried out among 773 employees at a British hospital. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect information about sympt...

Aim: To evaluate the effects of handling with different type gloves on setting time, compressive and tensile strength putty-type silicone impression materials. Methodology: The study was conducted at COMSATS Lahore approved by IRB FMH College Medicine Dentistry. In this in-vitro three (Polythene, Latex Vinyl) two brands each addition (Flexceed Elite P&P) condensation (Zetaplus Cavex) materi...

BACKGROUND Health care workers and individuals with frequent contact with latex are at risk for latex protein allergy. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare several established methods for measuring protein in extracts from latex-containing medical devices. METHODS Extracts from latex gloves were analyzed for natural rubber proteins using a modified Lowry assay and two differen...

1 National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa 4 Division of Tropical Health and Medicine an...

The purpose of this prospective investigation was to compare two methods for sheathing of the endovaginal ultrasound-probe. The study was conducted over a 7-month period in 1991-1992. In the first half of the investigation, latex examination gloves were used to sheath the endovaginal probe; during the second half of the investigation, latex condoms were used. Following the ultrasound examinatio...

OBJECTIVES To characterise the distribution of particle size and mass of glove powder aerosol released from powdered and powder free non-sterile latex gloves under controlled conditions. METHODS Gravimetric sampling and aerodynamic particle size analysis were performed during simulated use of gloves on a prosthetic hand in a chamber designed to minimise background particle concentrations. R...

Many hospitals have implemented policies to restrict or ban the use of devices made of natural rubber latex (NRL) in healthcare as precautionary measures against the perceived risk of NRL allergy. Changes in glove technology, progress in measuring the specific allergenic potential of gloves and a dramatic decrease in the prevalence of NRL allergies after interventions and education prompted us ...