Natural rubber latex allergy: Spectrum, diagnostic approach, and therapy

Woods, Julia A.; Lambert, Susan; Platts-Mills, Thomas A.E.; Drake, David B.; Edlich, Richard F.

doi:10.1016/s0736-4679(96)00256-9

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“…They describe a 12-year-old girl who developed rhinoconjuntivitis and itching in the throat after eating stone fruits. Subsequently, she developed angioedema after inflating a rubber balloon (Woods et al, 1997). Recently, anaphylactic shock was related in a woman underwent a cardiac catheter examination, and a Swan-Ganz catheter was inserted.…”

Section: Immunological Cross-reactivity Between Latex and Other Produmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among HCW, one may often elicit a history of respiratory symptoms, which is pronounced while at work. For patients presenting contact dermatitis or urticaria, the physician should ask about localization and time of onset of the eruption, morphology, nature of progression, and recurrence or periodicity (Woods et al, 1997).…”

Section: Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accelerators evoke positive patch tests in 82% patients with occupationally induced contact dermatitis associated with glove use. The allergens that most commonly yielded positive reactions have been carbamates, 4,4-dithiodimorpholine, thiurams mix, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, and 1,3-diphenylguanidine (Woods et al, 1997;Bendewald et al, 2010;Cao et al, 2010).…”

Section: Path Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Immunological Cross-reactivity Between Latex and Other Produmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historymentioning

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Section: Path Testingmentioning

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“…All physicians are requested to report all episodes of anaphylaxis during procedures requiring general anesthesia through state health departments to the epidemiology branch of the hospital infections program at the National Center for Infectious 35,36 In the health care setting, the two major strategies for management are (1) prevention and treatment of occupational latex allergy in employees, and (2) the safe care of the latex-allergic patient. The cornerstone of latex allergy treatment is avoidance.…”

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Review of Latex Allergy

Cheng¹,

Lee²

1999

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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“…Powder-free doublegloves do not have absorbable dusting powders that exhibit tissue toxicity and serve as a vector for latex allergy. 5,6 It is important to emphasize that latex surgical gloves are contraindicated in patients sensitized to latex. Latex allergy, an IgE-mediated reaction to proteins contained in finished natural rubber latex products, has become in the 1990s one of the most pervasive problems in healthcare, affecting both patients and healthcare providers.…”

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Biomechanical performance of latex and non-latex double-glove systems

Fisher

Reddy

Williams

et al. 1999

J. Biomed. Mater. Res.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate ten commercially available latex, powder-free surgical gloves and four commercially available non-latex, powder-free surgical gloves using standardized, reproducible biomechanical parameters that included glove thickness, puncture resistance, and glove donning force. For all gloves tested, with one exception (Neolontrade mark PF), puncture resistance increased for double-gloves as compared to single-gloves. In addition, single-glove thickness was not a reliable determinant of puncture resistance for either latex or non-latex gloves. For the latex gloves, the Ultrafree double and single-gloves exhibited the highest puncture resistance. The glove donning forces for the Biogeltrade mark M and Biogel Sensortrade mark single-gloves were the lowest. In contrast, the Biogel Revealtrade mark and Encoretrade mark Ultra-Thick exhibited the lowest double-glove donning forces. On the basis of these performance tests of latex gloves, the surgeon should consider the Biogel Reveal as well as the Ultrafree gloves for their latex double-glove system. For the non-latex gloves, the Pure Advantage Nitriletrade mark glove had the highest puncture resistance for one layer and two layers of glove material. The thin Pure Advantage Nitrile glove was the most resistant to glove puncture. The Pure Advantage Nitrile glove had low glove donning forces for both single-glove donning configurations and double-glove donning configurations. Consequently, we recommend the Pure Advantage Nitrile glove as the powder-free, non-latex, double-glove system.

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Natural rubber latex allergy: Spectrum, diagnostic approach, and therapy

Cited by 42 publications

References 49 publications

Natural Rubber Latex Allergy

Natural Rubber Latex Allergy

Review of Latex Allergy

Biomechanical performance of latex and non-latex double-glove systems

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