ALLMedicine™ Latex Allergy Center

Feb 25th, 2023 - Central venous catheters (CVCs) and pulmonary artery catheters (PACs) containing chlorhexidine, silver sulfadiazine, or latex can cause perioperative anaphylaxis. We examined the incidence of and outcomes associated with anaphylaxis caused by CVCs...

Jan 10th, 2023 - Allergy to natural rubber latex emerged as one of the main allergies at the beginning among some professional groups and the general population. Sensitization and development of latex allergy have been attributed to exposure to products containing...

Aug 25th, 2022 - Background: Global guidelines recommend the use of personal protective equipment due to the high risk of contagiousness of COVID-19 disease. The increase in COVİD-19 patients in the last two years has increased the rate of use of latex gloves in n...

Aug 10th, 2022 - Procedures Patch testing (see the image below) is useful to distinguish irritant reactions from allergic reactions. [54, 55, 56, 57] Patch testing before placement of a prosthesis is not indicated. Reading at 10 days is recommended because reactio...

Aug 10th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Contact stomatitis describes an inflammatory reaction of the oral mucosa by contact with irritants or allergens (see the images below). Contact stomatitis is classified by its clinical features, pattern of distribution, or etio...

Aug 25th, 2022 - Background: Global guidelines recommend the use of personal protective equipment due to the high risk of contagiousness of COVID-19 disease. The increase in COVİD-19 patients in the last two years has increased the rate of use of latex gloves in n...

Nov 4th, 2020 - The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of a transcervical foley catheter, in combination with the standard oral misoprostol regimen will result in a decreased primary cesarean delivery rate among women with a cervical dilation o...

Aug 6th, 2020 - Design: prospective randomized controlled trial Sitting: department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt Sample size calculation: thoroughly reviewing the use of vaginal misoprostol and intracervical...

Mar 6th, 2020 - Introduction: One of the female pelvic floor (PF) papers is to control urinary continence. Changes in your PF function and structure can cause the dysfunction of the PF. Among these UI is more commonly reported and affects one-third of adult women...

Jan 14th, 2020 - HYPOTHESIS Sleep Disorder Breathing (SDB) increase the appearance of High Blood Pressure (HBP) in pediatric patients. This HBP is reversible after treatment. OBJECTIVES Main goal: 1. Demonstrate how the presence of SDB is associated with an increa...

Aug 16th, 2019 - Conclusion It is unknown whether latex allergy precedes or follows food allergy. 11 The latex/food syndrome itself merits attention as a significant source of hypersensitivity to natural cosmeceutical ingredients.

Aug 16th, 2019 - It has been 40 years since the first reported case of IgE-mediated natural rubber latex allergy, which was soon followed by a global epidemic of allergic and anaphylactic reactions. 1,2 Resolution came through insightful work in the 1990s that led.

Jan 10th, 2019 - Action Points Among more than 40,000 U.S. adults, nearly 11% were estimated to have a "convincing" food allergy, and among food-allergic adults, more than half had a severe food allergy reaction. Note that the findings suggest that food allergies ...

Aug 2nd, 2018 - An allergic reaction is an exaggerated immune response that is known as a type I or immediate hypersensitivity reaction when provoked by reexposure to an allergen or antigen. Upon initial exposure to the antigen, dendritic cells bind it for presen.

Feb 2nd, 2018 - Answer: D. Surgical intervention within the first few days of life This is a classic presentation of spina bifida, an incomplete closure of the neural tube during the first month of embryonic development. Spina bifida occulta is a mild form in whi...