Latex Gloves

Next time you're in a hospital. ;-)

I get mine from Boots - ask for a large box ( 100 pairs? ) at the pharmacy counter.

Regards,

I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon, as it happens! :-)

Ask the nurse for some. ;-)

I get them from CPC. I don't recall them being powdered, but I don't seem to have any at the moment to actually check.

I can recommend London Ambulance Service :-)

My next ride with them will (probably) be when partner goes to London but I need some gloves before then. :-)

Have you tried nitrile gloves instead? I now use these and find them much better than latex. Only downside is the blue/purple colour.

You can get boxes of 100 from eBay fairly cheaply.

Rod wrote,

of wanting a source of decent latex gloves

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

Everglade latex gloves from CPC

just checked, no powder in them

There are also the blue nitrile ones which are stronger

Many thanks to all who made responded. I have now ordered 100 nitrile ones from ebay - will see what they are like. (Well, the NHS can breathe a sigh of relief - I always was going to pay for them and now I have.)

Try the supermarket - they had some at morrisons - near the paracetamol I think they were.

Hardly burning a hole in the pot though is it,however if you want to kick up a stink...thousands of pounds is being incinerated in drugs that the hospital burn each year due to patients not wanting or collecting from the hospital pharmacy.

Hows that one.

Nitrile are much tougher - and don't self destruct in white spirit. If you have a Costco near they are usually available at a similar price to the Latex (and in grey rather than purple!).

If there are any gloves still hanging around that really are latex, the nurse should be only too pleased to get rid of them. Latex allergy prevention was a big thing in the NHS a few years ago and we even had to get verification from our printers that the adhesive used on the back of shipping carton labels contained none.

Colin Bignell

The blue ones are stronger, but also they aren't so close fitting. If doing something like handling a filthy bicycle chain, I find they catch between the chain and teeth when rethreading, tear, and then you might as well not have worn them. It will depend what you're doing.

If its a patient transfer (white job) rather than just transport & you are anywhere near Barnehurst it could well be my daughter.

Look out for a blue eyed blond answering to the name Becky :-)

What? I never use gloves in that type of situation. I'm tactile. Seriously, I need to be able to do the job and gloves are so prohibitive.

I use them ( latex gloves ) for handling brand new instruments, when I want to prevent finger marks getting all over the metalwork while I'm setting them up. I seem to manage very well handling even the smallest instruments ( flutes and pics ), and they're sensitive enough to allow me to detect even the slightest lost motion in the keywork.

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