Everything about Medical Gloves totally explained
Medical gloves are medical safety accessories that ensure
sanitary hospital conditions by limiting
patients' exposure to
infectious matter. They also serve to protect
health professionals from disease through contact with
bodily fluids.
Medical gloves are traditionally made of
latex and powdered with
cornstarch to lubricate the gloves, making them easier to don Cornstarch replaced
Lycopodium powder and/or talc but since cornstarch can also impede healing if it gets into tissues (as during surgery), non-powdered gloves are being increasingly used during surgery and other sensitive procedures. Special manufacturing processes are used to compensate for the lack of powder.
There are two main types of gloves: exam, and surgical. Surgical gloves have more precise sizing (numbered sizing, generally from size 5.5 to size 9), and are made to higher specifications.
Due to the increasing rate of
latex allergy among health professionals as well as in the general population, there has been an increasing move to gloves made of non-latex materials such as
vinyl or
nitrile rubber. However, these gloves have not yet replaced latex gloves in surgical procedures, as gloves made of alternate materials generally don't fully match the fine control or greater sensitivity to touch available with
latex surgical gloves. High-grade non-latex gloves (such as nitrile gloves) also cost two or more times the price of their latex counterparts, a fact that has often prevented switching to these alternate materials in cost-sensitive environments, such as many hospitals.
Powder-free medical gloves are also used in medical cleanroom environments, where the need for cleanliness is often similar to that in a sensitive medical environment. Similar but specially tested gloves are used in electronics cleanrooms.
History
The first disposable medical gloves were manufactured in
1964 by
Ansell, which was founded in Melbourne in
1905 by Eric Ansell.
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