[PLUG-TALK] Chirac's shocker... Iraq.

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Sat Dec 27 11:39:26 UTC 2003


Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> Just to be totally above-board here, I thought I'd mention that most
> hospitals in this country stopped using latex gloves.  They stopped not
> because of any issue related to infection or permeability, however.  They
> stopped because many people have a sensitivity to latex on the skin.  They
> use that purple stuff now... I forget what it's called.

Nitrile I believe.  They are apparently more comfortable to wear as well 
as being more puncture resistant, more resistant to petroleum-based 
solvents, and more resistant to fats than latex.

--Brent






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