Latex products have long been recognized as a cause of latex protein allergy. The increased usage of latex gloves, with the consequent increased occurrence of latex allergies appears to have escalated with increasing awareness of the transmission of HIV-AIDS and other infections. The use of condoms as a means to prevent the transmission of STD's (sexually transmitted diseases) and HIV-AIDS has ...

The patient had a sibling who was mismatched for one HLA-haplotype and was able to provide bone-marrow stem cells instead of the matched unrelated donor. Natural rubber latex, the sap of the Brazilian rubber tree, is used to produce rubber, a material now used widely in the household and in medical practice. Immediate hypersensitivity reactions to latex were first reported in 1979, but the inci...

The Permanente Journal /Winter 1998/Volume 2 No. 1 The recently documented increasing incidence of natural rubber latex (Hevea brasiliensis protein allergy (HBPA) in health care workers and the general population has led several national organizations and governmental agencies to recommend that health care organizations: modify use of latex products, particularly gloves; implement mechanisms to...

This case report describes intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a fourteen-year-old female with spina bifida in which latex surgical gloves were incriminated as the aetiologic agent. The patient was non-atopic but since eight years of age she had developed localized angioedema and urticarial skin reactions on exposure to rubber. She had previously undergone several uneventful surgical proced...

Background: The emergence of epidemics in recent years, such as COVID-19 and monkeypox, has increased the need for protective gloves. Objectives: This study was performed to provide clinical evidence that no residual chemical additives are present powder-free, non-latex, with without pigment, sterile non-sterile nitrile, polyisoprene gloves at a level may induce type IV allergy unsensitized gen...

This is a laboratory investigation on the emissions from batch combustion of representative infectious ("red bag") medical waste components, such as medical examination latex gloves and sterile cotton pads. Plastics and cloth account for the majority of the red bag wastes by mass and, certainly, by volume. An electrically heated, horizontal muffle furnace was used for batch combustion of small ...

Bacteria able to grow on purified natural rubber in the absence of other organic carbon sources were isolated from soil. Ten isolates reduced the weight of vulcanized rubber from latex gloves by >10% in 6 weeks. Scanning electron microscopy clearly revealed the ability of the microorganisms to colonize, penetrate, and dramatically alter the physical structure of the rubber. The rubber-metaboliz...

Background Specialist cleanroom garments are a potential vector for transmission of microorganisms within these facilities. In order to maintain the low bioburden such clothing it has been perceived best practice operators dress wearing sterile gloves. However, efficacy glove use upon resultant bacterial contamination surface not previously evaluated. Aim To compare following their donning by d...