BACKGROUND Occupational contact dermatitis is common in healthcare workers. Although irritant contact dermatitis resulting from wet work is the most frequently reported cause, healthcare workers also constitute high-risk group for the development of allergic contact dermatitis and contact urticaria. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the prevalence of delayed-type and immediate-type hypersensitivity in 1...

©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...

RM Zucker, M Sapijaszko. Latex allergy in association with tissue expansion. Can J Plast Surg 1995;3(3):163-165. This case report outlines the sequence of events in an intraoperative anaphylactic reaction as the pockets for tissue expanders were bing developed. Previous expansion had been carried out uneventfully suggesting previous sensitization. Subsequent testing revealed significant latex a...

Compression bandaging has formed the cornerstone of leg ulcer treatment for venous and mixed aetiology ulcers for several years. Graduated compression bandaging is a successful non-curative treatment for venous leg ulceration (Cullum et al, 2001). The benefits for the patient include reduction of pain, reduction of oedema and subsequent improvement in quality of life. The Profore multi-layer co...

PURPOSE Children with spina bifida, bladder exstrophy and anorectal anomalies are at risk for latex allergy. Severe intraoperative anaphylaxis in a boy treated with kidney transplantation prompted this study to evaluate the prevalence of latex allergy in a cohort of children with chronic renal failure (CRF). MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 1996 and 2002, 57 boys and 28 girls were investigated a...

Over the past several decades, latex hypersensitivity has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the dental setting. Exposure to latex via direct skin contact or inhalation of airborne allergens from powdered gloves poses the risk of sensitizing both clinicians and their patients. Adverse reactions to latex range from mild irritant contact dermatitis to potentially life-threatening hyperse...

Patients who are allergic to latex (Hevea brasiliensis) may exhibit cross-hypersensitivity with foods. We present a case of anaphylaxis due to cassava in a patient suffering from pollinosis, latex allergy, and latex-fruit syndrome. We performed sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and immunoblotting with cassava, avocado, chestnut, banana, kiwi, and latex extract...

natural rubber latex is the second most implicated agent in intraoperative anaphylactic reactions. this report describes a case of intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a non-atopic fourteen-year-old girl undergoing multiple surgical procedures, but without spina bifida, in which latex surgical gloves were the main culprit for the anaphylactic reactions. clinical manifestations of an anaphyla...