Although it is over 70 years since allergic reactions to natural rubber latex (NRL) were first described, 1 a dramatic rise in the number of reported cases has occurred over the past two decades. The ...
In Cheung and Gillow's 1 comprehensive review of latex allergy, they cite their own ‘brief telephone audit’ to assert that the awareness of latex allergy in ophthalmic theatres is ‘fairly low’. In my ...