Poole C J, Nagendran V
Department of Occupational Health, Health Centre, Cross Street, Dudley DY1 1RN, UK.
Occup Med (Lond). 2001 Dec;51(8):510-2. doi: 10.1093/occmed/51.8.510.
The prevalence of natural rubber latex allergy amongst health care workers has been reported to vary between 1 and 40%. This is because different diagnostic criteria have been used on heterogeneous groups of subjects. We have undertaken a cross-sectional study of all 5600 employees in two National Health Service trusts served by one department of occupational health and one department of clinical immunology. The period prevalence (1999-2000) for Type I clinical latex allergy in the clinical health care workers was found to be 17/3500 (0.5%). Difficulties in diagnosis and factors which may have contributed to this low prevalence rate are discussed. No cases were forced to leave health care work as a consequence of their allergy.
据报道，医护人员中天然橡胶乳胶过敏的患病率在1%至40%之间。这是因为在不同类型的受试者群体中使用了不同的诊断标准。我们对由一个职业健康部门和一个临床免疫部门服务的两个国民医疗服务信托机构的5600名员工进行了一项横断面研究。结果发现，临床医护人员中I型临床乳胶过敏的期间患病率（1999 - 2000年）为17/3500（0.5%）。本文讨论了诊断方面的困难以及可能导致这一低患病率的因素。没有病例因过敏而被迫离开医护工作岗位。
