'Very Dangerous' Powdered Gloves Banned for Doctors
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[quote]At your next doctor's exam, one thing will be certain: Your physician won't be using powdered medical gloves.
That's because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just issued a ban on powdered medical gloves, calling them dangerous. The ruling marks only the second time in history that the FDA has banned a medical device.
The agency first proposed the ban back in March, and issued a final ruling today (Dec. 16). The ban will take effect on Jan. 19, 2017.
"While medical gloves play a significant role in protecting patients, health care providers and other individuals in close proximity, powdered gloves are very dangerous for a variety of reasons," the FDA said in a statement. [9 Disgusting Things That the FDA Allows in Your Food]
The powder is sometimes added to gloves to make them easier to take on and off, the agency said. But if the powder on latex gloves becomes airborne, it can cause allergic reactions. What's more, use of the gloves on patients has been associated with wound inflammation, as well as a condition in which bands of scar tissue form between people's organs after surgery, the FDA said.
Today's state-of-the-art medical gloves include nonpowdered alternatives that provide all the benefits of powdered gloves, without the same risks, the agency said.[/quote]
[url]http://www.livescience.com/57241-powdered-gloves-ban-fda.html[/url]
If your doctor was still using powdered gloves in 2016 anyway, I'd find a new doctor.
I thought they were already banned several years ago. I haven't seen powdered latex gloves in a long time, it's been all nitrile for years
[QUOTE=butre;51552777]I thought they were already banned several years ago. I haven't seen powdered latex gloves in a long time, it's been all nitrile for years[/QUOTE]
Most places just stopped using them mostly because they were really uncomfortable. But the side effects of that shitty white powder became more and more apparent over the last few years, which called for downright banning them in a lot of institutions.
Though they're still being ignorantly used here and there today, so I hope they just get completely banned sooner rather than later.
Surprised to see them still lingering around, I hate those gloves so much, make your hands feel weird as shit when you take them off.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;51552771]If your doctor was still using powdered gloves in 2016 anyway, I'd find a new doctor.[/QUOTE]
wow i've not seen powdered gloves in hospitals in a long while.
and now we've phased out all use of latex gloves too. I thought it was common clinical knowledge not to use them?
[QUOTE=butre;51552777]I thought they were already banned several years ago. I haven't seen powdered latex gloves in a long time, it's been all nitrile for years[/QUOTE]
Still being used in the kitchens
Last I work, we had em in 2015
[QUOTE=shian;51552842]Still being used in the kitchens
Last I work, we had em in 2015[/QUOTE]
not in the US, we dont wear gloves in kitchens unless we have a cut on our hands. I dont think you can even get powdered gloves at wal mart or cvs or anything anymore
Those things always gave me chapped lips. Though I probably shouldn't have been blowing them up like balloons.
huh, i put nitrile gloves on and off all day and they dont usually have any issue, i do remember using ye oldde latex gloves back in highschool though and the powder was kind of crap
[QUOTE=Sableye;51553019]huh, i put nitrile gloves on and off all day and they dont usually have any issue, i do remember using ye oldde latex gloves back in highschool though and the powder was kind of crap[/QUOTE]
Eh, I find nitrile can get nasty if you wear it for a while, starts feeling a bit sweaty. It's not that terrible though.
[QUOTE=butre;51552990]not in the US, we dont wear gloves in kitchens unless we have a cut on our hands. I dont think you can even get powdered gloves at wal mart or cvs or anything anymore[/QUOTE]
Shitty Marriott policies that working in open kitchens requires gloves cause guests sees you handling food
[QUOTE=butre;51552990]not in the US, we dont wear gloves in kitchens unless we have a cut on our hands. I dont think you can even get powdered gloves at wal mart or cvs or anything anymore[/QUOTE]
I vaguely remember using them when I worked at a dairy queen as recent as 2013 or so, I believe.
[QUOTE=Sableye;51553019]huh, i put nitrile gloves on and off all day and they dont usually have any issue, i do remember using ye oldde latex gloves back in highschool though and the powder was kind of crap[/QUOTE]
As long as you aren't allergic to the powder or mess about with your internal organs wearing them, you should have no problems.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;51553038]I vaguely remember using them when I worked at a dairy queen as recent as 2013 or so, I believe.[/QUOTE]
I remember using the cheap plastic cafeteria gloves working at dairy queen in like 2007
My hands always got itchy and red after using those damn things. Those purple gloves are so much nicer.
I read it as "powered gloves" and thought the FDA was cutting down on cool-ass augmented technology
[QUOTE=OvB;51553221]My hands always got itchy and red after using those damn things. Those purple gloves are so much nicer.[/QUOTE]
that's because you have a latex allergy, which is so common that it's why you dont see them anymore
I used to work as a warehouse manager at a medical supply company and every glove we sold was powder-free. Powder-free latex is still being sold but the vast majority of gloves we sold were powder-free nitrile gloves. No doctor in their right mind should wear anything but nitrile given how prevalent latex allergies are. Besides nitrile is cool because they're always blue or purple and look nice.
[QUOTE=butre;51552990]not in the US, we dont wear gloves in kitchens unless we have a cut on our hands. I dont think you can even get powdered gloves at wal mart or cvs or anything anymore[/QUOTE]
Gloves are still fairly common in kitchens for a variety of reasons. My company also had restaurants as clients and they would usually purchase vinyl gloves or nitrile gloves for use in their kitchens. Our gloves were medical grade, but were also food grade as well.
Harbor Freight sells 5mil Vinyl powdered gloves.
Sold a metric ton (10 boxes iirc) to a doctor last week.
What is the purpose of powder anyways? and like, what does it do?
[QUOTE=J!NX;51553495]What is the purpose of powder anyways? and like, what does it do?[/QUOTE]
It's purpose is to make it easier to put the gloves on. Given how often they have to swap them doctors found them really great to use.
Personally they are easier to put on, especially after washing your hands, but powder-free gloves are also pretty easy to slip on with enough finesse.
[QUOTE=J!NX;51553495]What is the purpose of powder anyways? and like, what does it do?[/QUOTE]
The gloves stick less, and that's it.
Downsides come from getting this stuff in open wounds, on your skin or inhaling it, which harbors inflammatory effects like swelling, irritation and in worst case pains. If you don't already have a latex allergy, you risk obtaining one. Etc.
I prefer latex when I'm doing detail work because they're more elastic and fit better, so you don't lose as much fine motor control if the gloves aren't perfectly sized, but that's personal use, and I'm not allergic.
I thought that latex was banned in medical use years ago. I haven't seen latex gloves in a doctors office in probably a decade. I remember being disappointed that they were being faded out because the nitrile ones aren't as fun to play with, again because the latex ones are more elastic.
[QUOTE=J!NX;51553495]What is the purpose of powder anyways? and like, what does it do?[/QUOTE]
Given what people said above, they also are pretty handy in medical practices. Especially in places like Surgery, a glove that can come off easily like powdered gloves can prevent many accidents especially since gloves have to be removed in a certain fashion. Sucks if gloves get stuck on your hands, and when you try takin' them off, you slingshot whatever fluids are on your gloves everywhere.
Some surgeons do use latex gloves, biogel is the leading brand I see in theatres and they do a range including both latex and non latex.
Someone accidentally used a box of these a few years back in the vasectomy clinic we run, and one of the patients was allergic, talk about swollen balls......think southpark minus the wheelbarrow.
I guess this means that third world countries are going to be flooded with them until [I]their[/I] medical authorities issue the same directive to force them out of their market.
Lest we forget, [URL="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/08/05/bayer-sells-aids-infected-drug-banned-in-us-in-europe-asia.aspx"]pharmaceutical companies have a history of doing exactly this[/URL], so it would be unsurprising for medical devices industries to not also follow suit.
Yeah, I don't think many hospitals have been using powdered/Latex gloves for a few years now. At the hospital I was at the exam gloves were either nitrile or vinyl and the surgical gloves were either polyisoprene or polychloroprene.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;51553547]Given what people said above, they also are pretty handy in medical practices. Especially in places like Surgery, a glove that can come off easily like powdered gloves can prevent many accidents especially since gloves have to be removed in a certain fashion. Sucks if gloves get stuck on your hands, and when you try takin' them off, you slingshot whatever fluids are on your gloves everywhere.[/QUOTE]
Yep, plus the purple ones end up "vacuuming" down to your hands if you get sweaty. It sucks removing those.
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