The real problem is obtaining emergency assistance with paramedics, physician or dental appointments, visiting a loved one in a health facility are problems if you have latex allergy. There is a need to educate patients and their families how to LIVE with latex allergy. Education is the key element to helping a newly diagnosed person regain independence and control in a chronic illness such as latex allergy. It requires understanding both what product is touching them and what may be in the environment that they are breathing. A tennis shoe sitting a few feet away in a closet will not acrosolize proteins and be a source of exposure while powdered medical glove use even in an adjoining office may potentially aerosolize through an open ventilation system can be a source of respiratory exposure.
Education decreases fear.
If fear is lessened, the patient and their family can better manage their reactions and will respond more appropriately or reasonably to their illness and their environment. How to properly take medications to alleviate symptoms of reactions. How to make steps to control their illness and decrease further symptoms so that it does not control them and make them a victim. Replace those products with non-latex if the person will come in contact with it directly or if the product is powdered and may acreseliza. Paramedic personnel are trained to look at the victim's wrist or neck for identifying bracelet warning of medical need.