title: Contact urticaria from rubber gloves.
abstract: Surgical rubber (latex) gloves can cause contact urticaria and even more severe allergic symptoms; the frequency of this allergy may be as high as 3 per cent among hospital employees. Those at high risk are surgeons and instrument nurses, most of whom are atopics. Clinical history of immediate rubber-glove allergy can be misleading, but the diagnosis is easily confirmed by prick, use, and RAST tests. Sensitized persons manage well by using plastic undergloves or vinyl gloves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University Central Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Turjanmaa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reunala
mesh_terms: D003877:Dermatitis, Contact / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D009783:Dermatitis, Occupational / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005932:Gloves, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D011852:Radioallergosorbent Test; D012307:Risk Factors; D012408:Rubber; D012882:Skin Tests; D014581:Urticaria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*
chemical_list: D012408:Rubber