The advantages of disposable medical gloves

The advantages of disposable medical gloves

In recent years, the application of TPE materials in the medical industry has become the main trend and direction. The traditional rubber (silicone) material has a long processing cycle and raises questions about the safety of PVC, which provides a historical and industrial opportunity for TPE to showcase its outstanding position in the medical industry. In recent years, the demand for medical grade TPE in the industry has also been increasing.

According to reports, the US Food and Drug Administration believes that TPE materials are non-toxic, do not cause allergies, mutations, and rejection of human tissues, have good airtightness, temperature resistance, and aging resistance, and can be used for high-temperature cooking and direct ultraviolet disinfection. Therefore, they can be used as basic materials for medical devices, such as medical gloves, medical catheters, infusion tubes, oxygen masks, etc. Next, we will discuss the advantages and applications of TPE in medical packaging materials. At present, the clinical requirements for medical packaging are safety, ease of use, environmental friendliness, and cost-effectiveness. Taking infusion sets as an example, compare three commonly used glass materials, PVC materials, and TPE materials.

Compared with glass materials, this TPE material does not have issues such as backflow air pollution, difficulty in detecting fine seam damage, and rubber stopper powder peeling. The material of this material is biodegradable and environmentally friendly. Unplasticized PVC is hard and brittle at room temperature, so it will participate in plasticizers in PVC to improve the flexibility of this polymer material. DEHP (diisooctyl phthalate) is used as medical PVC. The commonly used plasticizers are classified as Group III carcinogens by the Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and are harmful.

Return TPE material and extrude it from the sealed tube in a clean environment. The film bag composition does not enter the liquid, and the interior of the film is filled with 100 level clean air. The high-temperature extrusion process ensures the surface of the film. Aseptic properties can meet various requirements of infusion sets, including safety, environmental friendliness, softness, transparency, and low water vapor permeability. Thermoplastic elastomer materials are playing an increasingly important role in the medical industry, and the application of TPE in medical packaging materials will become more and more mature.

In summary, disposable medical TPE gloves have certain strengths and advantages compared to gloves produced from various materials.