Precautions for daily use of medical gloves:
1. Allergic touch dermatitis. It is characterized by itching hands, dry or chapped skin, often accompanied by erythema or water scars, and generally no significant symptoms of systemic allergies 6 to 48 hours after touching medical gloves. It may be an allergic reaction to some chemical components in medical gloves or the chemicals attached to the gloves, causing a delayed allergic reaction.
In this situation, the treatment method is: change to another type of medical gloves and continue to use them. In order to prevent severe allergic reactions, it is advisable to use less or not. Once allergic touch dermatitis appears, oral antihistamines are required, and dermatitis is applied to the hands, and the symptoms disappear quickly.
2. Medical allergic reaction. Skin redness and itching are usually present within a few minutes to ten minutes after putting on gloves. Symptoms can be seen all over the body, often accompanied by reed measles, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, chest throbbing, and heart palpitations. Severe patients may present dyspnea, tachycardia, blood pressure drop, and even anaphylactic shock, sudden death, etc.
encountered this situation. The treatment method is: quickly take off the gloves, smell the saline and wash the hands repeatedly, and go to the hospital urgently for treatment.
3. Influencing touch dermatitis. This situation is more common. Usually it only manifests as redness, itching, dryness or chapped skin on the hands. The reason is that the hands are repeatedly washed with soap and detergent, and the hands are not wiped. After putting on the hands, the internal air will not breathe, which will be caused by influence; if it is dry gloves , It is probably caused by the influence of talcum powder in the gloves.
In this situation, the solution is: wash off the soap or detergent before putting on the gloves, dry or dry your hands together before putting on the gloves; if it is dry gloves, the talcum powder inside should not be too much. These measures can prevent the onset of influencing dermatitis. Once influencing dermatitis occurs, avoid scratching, apply calamine lotion and other antipruritic agents, and the symptoms will disappear quickly.
