Surgeons and other healthcare professionals working with radiation typically wear two medical gloves on each hand, a synthetic rubber one inside a natural rubber one. They may not have to do that anymore thanks to a .
The problem is that while gloves from rubber trees protect against radiation and pathogens, they can cause allergies. Synthetic rubber gloves are OK allergy-wise, but aren鈥檛 preferred for protection.
Professor Katrina Cornish and researchers at the Ohio State agriculture and research campus in Wooster are making gloves with natural rubber from a plant in the U.S. southwest called . It does not cause allergies and it can be more heavily fortified to reduce, or attenuate, radiation than either rubber-tree or synthetic rubber. 鈥淲e can get enough radiation attenuation filler into the glove and still meet the surgical glove performance standards required by the FDA,鈥� Cornish said.
Professor Cornish says the next step in rolling out the gloves is to get FDA approval.
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