? about latex gloves....

I don't know, but personally, I prefer the latex gloves.... unless, of course, a patient has an allergy to them. They stretch better and I can feel things better through them. But the hospital where I do my clincals doesn't use latex gloves. I can understand why given people's sensitivity to them.

Ugh. I hate latex gloves. I ran on an ambulance service for a year and a half and we never used latex. I got used to them and now latex just feel weird, plus I'm paranoid I'll develop an allergy (I'm allergic to everything, or so it seems sometimes)

I wish I could find latex gloves in my facility -- I hate those nasty nitrile gloves we have!

Lancaster General Hospital is a completely latex-free institution that uses powder free VINYL gloves as well as the Nitrile. I'm not a fan of the nitrile, either, but the powder free vinyl were great!

My hands are becoming red and irritated lately. How many of you have developed a latex allergy or sensitivity since becoming a nurse?

I can wear powder-free latex gloves, but I will get a rash with any kind of contact with the powder in gloves. I used to get a rash on my arms just holding a chart because the powder from someone else's hands would be on it. Once hospitals got rid of powdered gloves I was fine.

Because non-latex gloves totally suck.

my hospital IS latex free

my dentist is GOING latex free

I developed an allergy to latex.

My hospital of course has to provide latex free gloves but they do not stock them in every room. It's against infection control policy to carry gloves in your pockets so I still use latex gloves. It's just not prudent for me to carry around a box of gloves when the hospital could easily provide them in every room. I am seeing more and more pt's with latex allergies and then (and only then) will the hospital put a box in the pt's room.

Plus, in an emergency, what am I going to tell a pt? Sorry, but I need to run and find latex free gloves before I stop the bleeding?

I know they're more expensive, but most employees hate latex free gloves. It wouldn't be that much more expensive if I (the only one with an allergy) were the only one to use them. I actually love those pt's with latex allergies - means I can use the gloves in the rooms.

I developed an allergy to latex.

My hospital of course has to provide latex free gloves but they do not stock them in every room. It's against infection control policy to carry gloves in your pockets so I still use latex gloves.

how do you still use latex gloves if you're allergic?

leslie

how do you still use latex gloves if you're allergic?

leslie

I suffer and pray that I suddenly don't go into anaphylatic (sp) shock. The pain can be unbearable.

I'll come home with severely reddened and swollen hands. Lotion makes it worse, as ironically, hand washing. I just have to wait it out.

I know it's an allergy - 2 dr's diagnosed me. Happened first at work, but was not deemed a workman's comp case.

Nitril are more expensive these are far from the only non laytex gloves out there. Many come very close to the qualities of laytex without being laytex and are quite inexpensive. One hospital where I worked even had some that were impregnated with loation I think it was aloh and your hand felt wonderful with them on and after.

Not all non laytex are great. Yet for the most part the non sterile things we do with gloves do not require the sensitivity of laytex and the other qualities.

Anyplace I have been since 1996 the only laytex gloves were sterile ones. Even then if you needed non laytex sterile they were available.

I developed a sever senitivity long before becoming a nurse. I was a CNA.