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Deproteinised latex condoms are well tolerated by latex allergic patients
Centre d'Allergologie, Hôpital Tenon, AP/HP, Paris, France
Correspondence to:
David A Levy, MD, Centre d'Allergie, Hôpital Tenon, 4, rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France dalevy@easynet.fr
Accepted February 15, 2001
Immediate hypersensitivity reactions to natural rubber latex were first recognised in 1979.1 Since the late 1980s, latex allergy has been recognised as a major problem, especially in individuals such as healthcare workers who use latex gloves at work every day2, 3 and in patients heavily exposed to latex gloves—for example, children who undergo multiple surgical interventions for congenital neurological or urological abnormalities.4 Condoms, widely used as a means of contraception and/or to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, were among the first latex products reported to cause an allergic reaction—going from genital urticaria to anaphylaxis—in individuals who had become sensitised to latex.5–8 This is not surprising given that classic latex condoms may contain as much latex allergen as latex gloves.9, 10
Among latex allergic people who use condoms, these reactions are not rare.6, 8 We recently questioned 238 of our latex allergic patients—mostly women, and half of them healthcare professionals—about their use of condoms11;
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