Helen Burns (H.D.Burns at bham.ac.uk) wrote:
> I'm having problems with an allergy to my disposable gloves. If any body
> has any advice on low allergenic brands or alternative solutions I would
> be very grateful if you could E.mail me- Thankyou.
You may be allergic against the powder in the gloves. If this is the
case, the solution is easy: switch to powder-free gloves.
If you are allergic against the Latex (which seems to contain some fairly
well characterized proteins which actually cause the allergy), there are
two possibilities:
- switch to vinyl gloves (which are non-elastic; furthermore, your sense
of feeling something will be severely impaired)
- switch to nitril gloves (as suggested by another poster); drawback is
that nitril gloves are *very* expensive (in Germany a single pair costs
almost the equivalent of 1 US$).
--Cornelius.
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