Example of use of latex within the county council
Last updated:examples:
- Personal Care – to provide protection from body fluids, broken skin.
- For use when shaving, washing, showering and bathing clients.
- Medication – when applying prescribed creams, gels and lotions.
- Emptying catheter bags or commodes.
- Handling biological specimens.
- Handling material in unhygienic areas e.g. where there is evidence of human or animal faeces.
- Use by First Aiders.
In addition to this it is also found in a variety of products and medical devices including:
- airways
- intravenous tubing
- stethoscopes
- catheters
- dressings and bandages.