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#224008 - 05/21/11 05:51 AM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: bacpacjac]
Mark_R Offline
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Registered: 05/29/10
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Loc: Southern California
Originally Posted By: bacpacjac
I might have been better off with a thicker outter pair of gloves. Rubber dish/chemical gloves maybe?


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.
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#224014 - 05/21/11 11:51 AM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: Art_in_FL]
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Originally Posted By: Art_in_FL

I also have considered going without. The actual benefits of safety in the field provided by gloves have never been entirely clear to me.



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.
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#224046 - 05/21/11 10:10 PM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: Mark_R]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
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Loc: W. WA
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.

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#224199 - 05/24/11 05:02 AM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: Mark_R]
Cecillo Offline
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Registered: 05/23/11
Posts: 2
Loc: New York
I think nitrile will best, I read some where about this. If you ordered these please share how will your experience with this.
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#224250 - 05/24/11 08:23 PM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: Art_in_FL]
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Registered: 11/08/07
Posts: 107
Loc: PNW
Originally Posted By: Art_in_FL
Firemen have long used tough leather gloves and I have seen a few EMTs wearing tough over-gloves, looked like poly knit work gloves, over the thinner rubber ones.

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

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#224259 - 05/24/11 09:09 PM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: hikermor]
Frisket Offline
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Registered: 09/03/10
Posts: 640
Originally Posted By: hikermor
handling insecticides, casting fossils with plaster, cleaning engines, you name it.


Just a side note if your gonna be doing anything with petro based things If i recall they eat latex so stick with nitrile.
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#224289 - 05/25/11 12:40 AM Re: Latex vs. vinyl vs. nitrile gloves [Re: Mark_R]
RayW Offline
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Registered: 12/06/01
Posts: 601
Loc: Orlando, FL
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.

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