Since the 1980s, with the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the understanding of the transmission of blood diseases the number of health care workers wearing gloves has increased greatly. Medical gloves can be divided into 2 categories according to the material: natural latex gloves and nitrile gloves, which are not specified in the domestic context, all refer to natural latex gloves, nitrile gloves are only used in small quantities abroad. At present, natural latex gloves have been used not only for medical personnel, in production, all aspects of life, latex gloves have been widely used.

Medical latex gloves disinfection treatment: used gloves should be taken off immediately, soaked in disinfectant solution for 30min, soaking should be turned over the front of the glove, because the reverse side is often outside when the glove is taken off, not decontamination sterilization effect, because the glove is light, generally floating on the surface of the liquid, soaking should be used items under pressure to let the glove all submerged in the disinfectant solution.

Preservation of medical latex gloves: after washing and drying the soaked gloves, check for damage, damage can not be used again, check whether the size of both hands are the same, in addition on the talcum powder in the glove bag, sterilized and stored in a sterile room. Now there are disposable medical sterilization latex gloves on the medical market, the shell with paper packaging, after the use of such gloves also need to be disinfected as medical waste disposal, can not just discard.

Precautions.

1, there are many drugs often damage gloves made of some materials, if this is a dangerous drug, and the degradation of gloves will lead to human exposure to infectious substances. Drugs that may degrade and permeate through gloves are: glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde, xylene, hypochlorite solution, alcohol, chemotherapy drugs, grease, petroleum ointment, non-polymer bone cement and many other disinfectants, germicides and general chemicals, so when encountering these drugs it is best to bring double gloves.

2, when the tape, trademark, electrocardiogram or other sticky substances stuck in the gloves, not easy to remove, will also destroy the protective barrier of the gloves, then the strong removal will tear the gloves, should draw attention to.