FDA Prohibits Use of Powdered Gloves
In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled that it prohibits the use of powdered gloves in medicine on the grounds that it is harmful to human health. This ban was first proposed in March 2016.
This prohibition accelerated efforts to remove the use of pre-powdered surgeon gloves, powdered examination gloves, and surgeons without slow application of absorbable powder to lubricate their gloves.
Dusts are used to facilitate movement when gloves are worn and removed. Unlike synthetic powdered gloves, especially natural rubber latex gloves are known to carry proteins that can cause respiratory allergy reactions of aerosol glove powders. Although powdered synthetic gloves do not carry the risk of allergic reactions, they are known to be associated with serious adverse events, including severe airway inflammation, wound inflammation and post-surgical adhesions.
Professional societies advocate this prohibition, and as many individual clinicians do, many major health systems have already restricted or completely terminated the use of such products.
Although the gloves used for medical purposes have a very important role in protecting patients, healthcare providers and other people nearby, the FDA states that these gloves are dangerous for various reasons. They emphasize that powders used in all types of gloves are associated with serious serious airway inflammation, hypersensitivity reactions, allergic reactions including asthma, lung inflammation and lung injury, possible serious adverse events such as granulomas and peritoneal adhesions. They say that proteins in aerosol glove powder can cause allergic respiratory reactions. Both surgeons and patient examination gloves say that there are appropriate alternatives that do not carry the risks of powdered gloves but provide similar protection, dexterity and performance, so switching to existing alternatives in the market will not cause any harm to public health.
The ban went into effect on January 19th. This decision was the second ban by the FDA in 1983 after the abolition of the use of prosthetic hair strands. The FDA has now proposed another ban on the use of electrical stimulation devices for the treatment of self-injurious or aggressive behavior.
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