Respiratory syndrome in latex allergy

Abstract

The study demonstrates results of detailed clinical, functional and allergological examination of two occupational categories contacting to latex: 124 workers of rubber industry proceeding latex raw material and making rubber products and 150 medical workers of multi-profile clinical hospital used rubber gloves. A syndrome of airway hypersensitivity to latex allergen (LA) was revealed in 15.3% of the industry workers and 11.3% of medical staff. It was called as "respiratory syndrome" and its characteristic is given in the article.
The study results on NO monitoring in the exhaled air (NO_exh) confirm allergic inflammation under the occupational contact to LA. The clinical, functional and allergological findings demonstrate aerogenic LA delivery to the airways followed by respiratory allergy and latex-induced bronchial asthma (BA) development which were diagnosed in 12.9% of the rubber industry workers and 8.7% of the medical personnel daily used latex gloves and other rubber medical products.