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IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS TO LATEX GLOVES IN A DENTAL STUDENT. A case report. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of IMAB, 2011
The article presents a case of dental student with immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reaction to latex gloves. Symptoms appeared during the second year of regularly using of latex gloves.
Iliyana Stoeva
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Latex Allergy in Dental Care

open access: yesBalkan Journal of Dental Medicine, 2014
Natural rubber latex is found in numerous medical and dental products. Adverse latex reactions in dental patients and practitioners have significantly increased since the introduction of universal precautions for infection control.
Dermata A., Arhakis A.
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When behavior outweighs infrastructure: disinfectant and latex exposure and preventive practice among operating room nurses in China [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundOperating-room (OR) nurses encounter disinfectants, sterilizing agents, and latex products as embedded job tasks, yet their multi-domain symptom burden, safety awareness, and preventive practices have rarely been examined together, particularly
PingPing Li   +4 more
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Relevance of latex aeroallergen for healthcare workers

open access: yesAllergology International, 1996
The dispersion of latex allergen bound on glove powder has been shown to be of clinical importance to latex-sensitized medical staff and patients. To investigate whether latex aeroallergen is associated with the development of latex allergic reactions in
X. Baur   +4 more
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The Basophil Activation Test in Allergy Diagnostics: Clinical Applications, Methodological Challenges, and Proposed Clinical Frameworks [PDF]

open access: yesCells
The basophil activation test (BAT) is a modern in vitro functional assay used for the diagnosis of immunoglobulin E-mediated allergic reactions. The method is based on flow cytometric assessment of activation marker expression on peripheral blood ...
Marina Izmailovich   +11 more
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Latex Hypersensitivity among Allergic Egyptian Children: Relation to Parental/Self Reports [PDF]

open access: yesPulmonary Medicine, 2014
Zeinab A. El-Sayed   +3 more
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Paediatric perioperative hypersensitivity reactions: Analysis of the French GERAP network database. [PDF]

open access: yesPediatr Allergy Immunol
Graphical abstract of the pediatric perioperative hypersensitivity reactions recorded in the GERAP network datbase between 1997 and 2024. Abstract Background Perioperative hypersensitivity (POH) reactions are rare but potentially life‐threatening and remain poorly characterised in children.
Michel MP   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Latex allergy in health care

open access: yesZdravniški Vestnik, 2012
The increasing use of natural rubber latex medical gloves in the last three decades has caused an increase in latex allergy. The majority of risk groups for allergy development include health care workers, workers in the rubber industry, atopic ...
Tina Virtič, Marjan Bilban
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Latex sensitivity among hospital employees and atopic children

open access: yesThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1998
Allergic reactions to latex products are an important health problem for health care workers and children. To investigate the prevalence of latex and latex-associated food sensitivities among hospital employees and atopic children, 61 hospital ...
Y Saraçlar   +5 more
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Prevalence of Type I Allergy to Latex and Type IV Allergy to Rubber Additives in Turkish Healthcare Workers

open access: yesDermatology Practical & Conceptual, 2023
Introduction: Glove-induced dermatoses are frequently seen among healthcare workers (HCWs) and are often mistakenly defined as latex allergy. Objectives: To determine the prevalences of (i) the symptoms of immediate type hypersensitivity reactions ...
Hasan Aksoy   +2 more
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