What you must know about non latex surgical gloves!

In the medical process, many professional medical equipment are needed, and surgical medical gloves are an indispensable and important tool. Medical gloves generally use latex gloves, but with the development of the medical industry, it has been found that many medical staff may experience redness and swelling at the contact area between their skin and gloves after wearing surgical medical gloves, accompanied by itching, stinging, and burning sensations. In fact, this is an allergic phenomenon caused by gloves. This allergic phenomenon not only affects medical staff, but also occurs in patients, causing great inconvenience to people.

July 8th, World Allergy Day, is approaching. While the World Allergy Organization (WAO) is calling for the fight against allergic diseases, it is also important for healthcare workers to pay attention to their own allergies. A good solution is to choose hypoallergenic gloves, and non latex gloves are a good choice.

The main advantage of switching to non plastic gloves is to avoid adverse reactions caused by gum allergies, reduce treatment costs and time and productivity losses for patients and medical staff when clinical reactions occur. Once medical staff experience allergic reactions, they may take sick leave, resulting in additional costs for staff replacement and turnover. In addition, using non latex gloves can help shorten the surgical turnover time for patients with latex allergies, reducing the waste of time and medical resources caused by canceling or postponing surgeries due to the discovery of latex allergies at the last minute. In addition, there are also many advantages in logistics, such as integrating product lines, simplifying ordering, increasing available operating room space (reducing the number of required products), and so on.

Of course, non latex gloves cannot be generalized either. Non latex gloves can help reduce latex allergies and lower the risk of sensitivity, but not all non latex gloves can prevent type IV allergies. Although using certain non latex gloves instead of latex gloves reduces the sensitization risk of latex coagulants, other rubber coagulants such as diphenylguanidine and hexadecylpyridine chloride may also increase the incidence of occupational contact dermatitis.

Only non latex gloves that are completely free of coagulants can provide sufficient protection against gum and chemical allergies. When choosing non latex gloves, it is necessary to understand the different types of non latex surgical gloves to determine which products better meet your requirements for sensitivity, comfort, and fit, while eliminating latex type I allergies and significantly reducing chemical type IV allergies and sensitivities. Type IV chemical allergies can cause serious occupational disabilities and endanger the work of medical staff This places higher demands on the development of medical glove technology for surgical procedures.