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Article: Gloves and latex allergy.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Dear Editor,
HPN's Guide to Gloves is a helpful re source for those tasked with the tremendous responsibility of purchasing barrier protection for health care workers. However, the 2004 guide, published February 4, is missing some new information that would help purchasers select the best barrier protection and reduce the risk of latex allergy.
Recent advances in manufacturing technology allow glove manufacturers today to drastically reduce the amount of allergy causing protein in latex gloves. In fact, several independent hospital studies in U.S., Canada and Europe have show that these new gloves not only vastly reduce the incidence of latex allergy, ...