Free-Reprint Article Written by: Norm Howe See Terms of Reprint Below.
***************************************************************** * * This email is being delivered directly to members of the group: * * [email protected] * ***************************************************************** We have moved our TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article. Be certain to read our TERMS OF REPRINT and honor our TERMS OF REPRINT when you use this article. Thank you. This article has been distributed by: http://Article-Distribution.com Helpful Link: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Overview http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Title: ============== Relief For Latex Allergy Sufferers As FDA Clears New Medical Glove Article Description: ==================== Most allergies are easy to cope with by simply avoiding the trigger. Sometimes that's easier said than done, such as in the case of a latex allergy. Estimates vary, but anywhere from 3 percent to 22 percent of all health care workers are sensitized to traditional latex. FDA recently cleared for marketing the first device made from a new form of natural rubber latex called guayule latex. Additional Article Information: =============================== 460 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2008-07-29 11:00:00 Written By: Norm Howe Copyright: 2008 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For more free-reprint articles by Norm Howe, please visit: http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/norm-howe.html ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. Use the following URL to let us know where you have used this article, and we will include a link to your website on thePhantomWriters.com: http://thephantomwriters.com/notify.php?id=6193&p=load HTML Copy-and-Paste and TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of Article Are Available at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/h/latex-allergy-sufferers.shtml#get_code --------------------------------------------------------------------- Relief For Latex Allergy Sufferers As FDA Clears New Medical Glove Copyright (c) 2008 Norm Howe Validation and Compliance Institute http://www.vcillc.com Most allergies are easy to cope with by simply avoiding the trigger. Sometimes that?s easier said than done, such as in the case of a latex allergy. Estimates vary, but anywhere from 3 percent to 22 percent of all health care workers are sensitized to traditional latex. For those in the healthcare profession, as well as patients who suffer from a latex allergy, every day there are materials that must be handled or avoided with caution, or suffer the consequences, ranging from a mild rash, to, worst-case scenario, anaphylactic shock. Traditional latex gloves are made from the milky sap of a rubber tree, Hevea braziliensis. That sap contains a protein that can trigger allergic reactions, particularly after prolonged and repeated contact. Allergic reactions run the gamut from skin redness, rash, hives, or itching, to respiratory symptoms such as difficulty breathing, coughing spells and wheezing, and, rarely, shock. Health care workers first began using traditional latex gloves in the 1890s. The HIV epidemic of the 80s ushered in modifications in glove materials, which made them more sensitizing to those with latex allergies. Some health care institutions responded by shifting to alternative glove materials for their workers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also implemented numerous steps to address the glove allergy problem, including working with the industry to develop a consensus standard that identifies maximum protein and powder levels for medical gloves. In addition, a 1998 rule requires that all medical devices containing latex carry a statement on the label warning about the risk of allergic reactions. Most recently, FDA cleared for marketing the first device made from a new form of natural rubber latex called guayule latex. The product, the Yulex Patient Examination Glove, is derived from the guayule bush, a desert plant native to the Southwestern United States. The new material provides flexibility and strength comparable to latex. Available data on the new guayule latex show that even people who are highly allergic to traditional latex do not react on first exposure to guayule latex proteins. Because there is no data on people?s long-term experience with the Yulex glove, which is made by the Yulex Corporation of Maricopa, Ariz., the product will carry a warning (for now) about the potential for allergic reactions. Products such as the Yulex glove, which utilize new materials in inventive ways, are a benefit to both healthcare workers and patients. To get the FDA stamp of approval, companies such as VCI LLC can help. VCI specializes in compliance services that meet FDA standards, as well as expertise in validation, production, quality, and R&D. VCI also offers manufacturers a proactive approach to getting it right the first time--before a product even hits the shelf--thus negating the need for a reactive response down the road. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Norm Howe, Senior Partner at Validation and Compliance Institute, consultants for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. He got his BS at UC, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA. He has held many management positions in FDA regulated industries, most at BASF. http://www.vcillc.com --- END ARTICLE --- Get HTML or TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of This Article at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/h/latex-allergy-sufferers.shtml#get_code ..................................... TERMS OF REPRINT - Publication Rules (Last Updated: May 11, 2006) Our TERMS OF REPRINT are fully enforcable under the terms of: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR: ..................................... *** Digital Reprint Rights *** * If you publish this article in a website/forum/blog, You Must Set All URL's or Mailto Addresses in the body of the article AND in the Author's Resource Box as Hyperlinks (clickable links). * Links must remain in the form that we published them. Clean links should point to the Author's links without redirects having been inserted into the copy. * You are not allowed to Change or Delete any Words or Links in the Article or Resource Box. Paragraph breaks must be retained with articles. You can change where the paragraph breaks fall, but you cannot eliminate all paragraph breaks as some have chosen to do. * Email Distribution of this article Must be done through Opt-in Email Only. No Unsolicited Commercial Email. * You Are Allowed to format the layout of the article for proper display of the article in your website or in your ezine, so long as you can maintain the author's interests within the article. * You may not use sentences from this article as an input for any software that steals sentences from others in order to build an article with software. The copyright on this article applies to the "WHOLE" article. *** Author Notification *** We ask that you notify the author of publication of his or her work. Norm Howe can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Print Publication Reprint Rights *** If you desire to publish this article in a PRINT publication, you must contact the author directly for Print Permission at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..................................... If you need help converting this text article for proper hyperlinked placement in your webpage, please use this free tool: http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl ===================================================================== ABOUT THIS ARTICLE SUBMISSION http://thePhantomWriters.com is a paid article distribution service. thePhantomWriters.com and Article-Distribution.com are owned and operated by Bill Platt of Stillwater, Oklahoma USA. Learn more about our article distribution services by visiting: http://thephantomwriters.com/x.pl/tpw/info/article-distribution/index.html The content of this article is solely the property and opinion of its author, Norm Howe http://www.vcillc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ---------------------------------------------------------------------
