Rubber dish gloves offer decent protection against scrapes, but there's a loss of fine dexterity. Try putting on a bandaid while wearing them.

I can buy smaller packs (6-10 pairs) of disposable gloves and rotate them out on a 6 month basis. Use the old one for cleaning the cat's litter box.

In the old days, before 1977or so, gloves were never used and were not part of any FA protocol. Then along came HIV/AIDS and the routine use of gloves.

I grinned yesterday, donating blood, when the technician put of gloves just to take a tiny drop to check my hematocrit. Never happened back way back when.

Now I just buy disposable gloves by the box at Costco (a big box store, logically enough) and keep several pairs in my FAKs. They are also handy in various dirty chores - handling insecticides, casting fossils with plaster, cleaning engines, you name it.

Be sure you learn the proper way to divest yourself of these gloves, so that you do not contaminate yourself.

With the diseases around these days (AIDS, HIV, MERSA, etc), it seems it would be better to wear the gloves than to go bare-handed. If the gloves protect you four out of five times, you're still ahead. With luck, the fifth time the patient is 'clean'. With luck.

Sue

I think nitrile will best, I read some where about this. If you ordered these please share how will your experience with this.

The woven gloves were probably for sharps protection; something like: http://www2.dupont.com/Personal_Protection/en_US/products/kevlar/cut_products.html

Just a side note if your gonna be doing anything with petro based things If i recall they eat latex so stick with nitrile.

Would also use nitrile gloves. If you are using the gloves for anything other than first aid the nitrile gloves hold up better. I work as a machinist and when I am using gloves at work the latex gloves will disintegrate quickly upon contact with any kind of solvent or petroleum based chemicals. Nitrile gloves will usually last for at least a few hours, usually toss them when the the parts I am handling are cleaner than the gloves. But I have also used the same gloves all day, the latex gloves will not hold up that well.