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Occupational Medicine 51:510-512 (2001)
Copyright © 2001 Society of Occupational Medicine

Original Paper

Low prevalence of clinical latex allergy in UK health care workers: a cross-sectional study

C. J. M. Poole and V. Nagendran

Department of Occupational Health, Health Centre, Cross Street, Dudley DY1 1RN
Department of Clinical Immunology, The Guest Hospital, Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SE, UK

Abstract

The prevalence of natural rubber latex allergy amongst health care workers has been reported to vary between 1 and 40%. This is because different diagnostic criteria have been used on heterogeneous groups of subjects. We have undertaken a cross-sectional study of all 5600 employees in two National Health Service trusts served by one department of occupational health and one department of clinical immunology. The period prevalence (1999–2000) for Type I clinical latex allergy in the clinical health care workers was found to be 17/3500 (0.5%). Difficulties in diagnosis and factors which may have contributed to this low prevalence rate are discussed. No cases were forced to leave health care work as a consequence of their allergy.

Keywords      Care workers; clinical health; latex allergy; prevalence


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