For a free confidential evaluation, please call the Fraud Litigation Unit at our office. We're part of a team committed to ending taxpayer abuse in Medicare and Medicaid expenses. Just call us. We'll handle the rest . It has been estimated that 8 percent of the nation's 7 million health care workers have latex allergies that can cause problems from itching and hives to more serious ones such as difficulty breathing and life-threatening shock.
Some experts now say that thousands of patients are at risk also.
Many patients who undergo multiple surgeries, particularly as children, are at risk. It has been reported that between 40 percent and 65 percent of spina bifida patients have latex allergies. Latex powder was used in gloves in order to make it easier to for health care workers to pull them on. However, scientists now report that the latex powder spreads life-threatening latex allergies. In Oregon there was an effort to ban the latex powdered gloves after a nurse died.