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1. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   Yeah over here we have the disabilty descrimation act and the equality act. Each time I'm banging my head against a wall. There must be a suitable glove out there for me as one day I'll be a patient. Does anyone in the USA have the name of the compa...

2. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   It is so annoying, I have not seen occupational health other than for my vaccinations. It has taken me 2years to even be referred to occ health. No one has been helpful, I feel like I have been left on my own until I just fall in a hole and say I giv...

3. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   I have tried the purple gloves and they exacerbate my allergy, my hands and forearms swell as though I have lymphodema. The vinyl have an increased permeability for prolonged use and research back in 1998 suggest they do not protect against bbv, also...

4. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   My clinical educator said they were too permeable and they are against my current trusts infection control policy which is a problem. I have been using vinyl gloves problem free on my skin for 2 years and now I am being stopped from clinical placemen...

5. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   I have used nitrile blue gloves and accelerator free purple gloves but they have rubber accelerators in that I react to. I have double gloved over the vinyl and my hands become itchy and red :-(

6. glove allergy

   sherone replied to sherone's topic in Student Assist

   I'm a 2nd year student now, after continually asking my university to refer me to occupational health since commencing the course they finally have; to be told I shouldn't be a nurse, I'm unfit to be a nurse. the support has been really poor from the...

7. glove allergy

   sherone posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hello, I am a student nurse in the UK with a type 4 latex and natural rubber latex allergy (carba mix and thiuram mix). Does any one have the same allergy as me? I have been told I shouldn't be a nurse due to my allergy, but this is all I have ever ...