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Kate Hallberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:19:39 -0700
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:21:42 EST, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kate-I'm glad you asked because latex allergies in now seen in about 2-9% of
> the general population and about 12-15% of health care professionals. There is
> about 3 deaths/year  from latex but that is probably under estimated because
> deaths in opeating rooms usually are attributed to anesthesia problems but
> latex can result in the same type of death.

oh Barbara, what you have gone through and are going through is awful!
  I'm going to get on the phone right now and get my girls' school
janitor to stop wearing them and make sure that I get latex free rooms
for my son's upcoming Speech and Language, OT and vision assessments-
I knew the dangers of residual exposure but have been ok with just
direct avoidance.  or so I thought.  I have fibromyalgia and have
thought that recurrent intestinal distress was part of that (more than
just the elections today!)  but now I wonder if it's food prep.
egads.   do you have a list of latex free food sources?   My local
grocery uses vinyl gloves but I have to check out some others.

no one should ever have to put up with what you are.   I hope you find
some latex free zones- I assume that includes bananas?  bananas have
started giving me intestinal distress- my husband still buys them-
generally I let the kids have them only while shopping and they don't
come home with us.
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Kate, http://systems.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html
  Mom to Ursula (9.7), Sage (7), Benno (3)   People seem not to see
that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their
character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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