mindy
Also be careful where you eat. Latex gloves worn to prepare food can cause a severe latex reaction in an allergic person. They cut the lettuce with the gloves on you eat the lettuce and the latex proteins from the gloves, and then you could have a severe reaction. There is NO reason to have food handlers wear latex gloves. vinyl gloves provide adequate protection from all pathogens that foodhandlers may have as long as the gloves are changed every thirty minutes. It is a deadly allergy. YOu would not stand in a room full of bees if you were allergic to bees so why is is ok for hospitals and resturants to put us in a room full of latex? Chewing gum has latex in it. ALl elastic products including underwear has latex in it, Erasers. The list is unreal. check out some web sites. It is a scarey and potentially fatal allergy and not a joking matter to us who have to life with it.