Disposable or Rubber Gloves are used by doctors for their safety from the germs of the patients. Disposable gloves are found just in one quality of plaster made plastic while there are many types of rubber gloves. Rubber gloves such as acid and alkali resistant gloves, electrical insulation gloves, radiation-resistant gloves, medical gloves etc. Separate latex gloves and mold gloves can be found according to the raw material or manufacturing process.
Here are a few types and tips to use and choose gloves for fixed medical purposes in a hospital or maybe in the laboratory.
Where to Use Acid and alkali resistant?
Acid and alkali resistant gloves should be able to be used in sulfuric acid (density 1.32) or caustic soda solution (density 1.19) at {{4} ° ° C. There are two types of electrical insulation gloves: High voltage and low voltage. High voltage can be used under 6000 volts (test voltage is 1 2000 volts). Low voltage can be used below 1000 volts.
Non-Professional Use of Disposable Gloves should be
There are two types of medical friendliness: light surface and wool surface (wool surface gloves or wrinkle gloves). According to the material, it is generally divided into plastic disposable gloves, latex disposable gloves, and nitrile disposable gloves. Gloves are always bought in bulk whether for professional or non-professional use, but you need to keep in touch with medical equipment manufacturers to place an order in bulk.
Of these, plastic film gloves are commonly used on non-professional occasions. The advantage is that the price is cheap, but due to the lack of flexibility of plastic disposable gloves, durability and suitability is relatively poor.
Professional Gloves – Latex Gloves
Latex gloves are commonly used in professional occasions, such as operating rooms, laboratories and other places where high hygienic conditions are required. The advantage is that they have a special elasticity and are more durable, but they are not resistant to the corrosion of animal fat, and they are easily formed by contact with animal fat. According to statistics, 2-17% of people will have different degrees of allergy to latex.
In addition to the properties of latex gloves, nitrile gloves, to improve the shortcomings of latex gloves, can first counteract the corrosion of animal fats and oils, and will not cause allergies.
Some Tips to Choose Gloves Cautiously
There are tips for choosing disposable gloves.
1. If you are used to food gloves, please choose a competent company. Food gloves are made of pure raw material, colorless and odorless transparent white gloves.
2. It doesn’t matter if it is used for house cleaning or something like that. Then the difference between high quality and inferior quality is mainly the difference between raw materials, high quality uses pure materials, and inferior quality uses renewable materials.
How to use disposable gloves properly?
The hand is one of the best and densest human organs. It consists of 27 bones, which is 1 / 4th of the total number of human bones, and the muscle is a very dangerous complex for the division and organization of blood vessels and nerves. Is. Thousands upon thousands. This fine neural network allows us to feel cold, heat and pain in just a few microseconds and to feel the slightest vibration of the hair. From the date of birth, the hand did not stop activities, until the end of life, the average hand can be 250 million times. However, we often overlook the importance of the hand, neglect its proper protection, make the right choice and use protective equipment.
Consider the following questions in the process of using disposable gloves:
1) Choose suitable gloves for different workplaces as per requirement. Glove size should be appropriate, it will restrict blood circulation, will easily cause fatigue and discomfort if the gloves are too tight. If complicated, it will not be easy to fall.
2) Check the glove before wearing it, check if the TI has small holes or bad – scratches, especially in the fingers. We can use the blowing method to check the anti-chemical gloves.
3) Before wearing gloves for handwashing, gloves are easy to wear in clean (sterile) hands, or sweat-producing bacteria breed easily.
4) Take care to remove the gloves correctly, avoid contamination of the glove with harmful substances that come in contact with the skin and clothing, as a result of secondary contamination, remove the gloves after washing hands and hand to protect hands. Clean the cream.
5) After work, sweat and gloves by hand are easy to breed intimate contact bacteria, do not share gloves with others to avoid cross-infection.
6) Pay attention to the use of gloves, if a pair of gloves are used in different places, it can shorten the lifestyle of the glove.
