Note: This list is a guideline for informational purposes only. It is very difficult to obtain full and accurate information on the latex content of products which may vary between companies and product series. A.L.E.R.T., Inc. disclaims any legal responsibility associated with the use of any products on this list. All individuals and professionals must obtain written verification of non-latex status from the product supplier before use with latex allergic individuals. Many companies listed under alternatives also carry latex products. Please contact A.L.E.R.T., Inc. at (414) 677-9707 or 1-888-97ALERT to share information you obtain about products not listed

Usage:

• Product that frequently contains latex
  • Alternative product or method that does NOT contain latex

• Airway, masks:
  • Hudson (800) 848-3766
  • VITAL SIGNS (800) 932-0760
  • Polamedco Airways (800) 932-0760
  • Kendall (508) 261-8000
  • Ferris Medical (716) 537-2391
  • Relicare Express (800) 556-3210
• Ambu bag:
  • Silicone:
    • PMR 2 by Nellcor Puritan-Bennett (800) NELLCOR
    • Laerdal (800) 431-1055
    • Resprionics (800) 345-6443
    • Armstrong Medical (800) 323-4220
• Anesthesia, bags & ventilator circuits:
  • Neoprene bag Anesthesia Associates (619) 744-6561
  • Ohmeda (800 345-2700
  • Dreger
  • use a well-washed system
• Bandages:
  • Active Strips & Comfort Strips (latex in package) 3M (3M-HELPS)
  • Cetra (888) LATEX-NO
  • Curad Bandages (latex in package) (508) 261-8000
  • Readi-Bandages
  • use sterile dressing with latex free tape
• Blood administration sets:
  • Terumo-Tranfusion Division (800) 283-7866
• Blood pressure cuff, tubing:
  • TRIMLINE medical products (800) 526-3538
  • Cleen Cuff by VITAL SIGNS (800) 932-0760
  • Dinamap by Critikon (813) 887-2000
  • Use over clothing, cover w/ webril or stockinette
• Bulb syringes:
  • PVC Bard (800) 526-4455
  • Medline (800) MEDLINE
  • Davol (800) 526-4455
• Catheters, leg bags, drainage systems:
  • Velcro
  • Nylon straps
  • PVC:
    • Mentor (800) 235-5731
    • Davol (800) 526-4455
• Catheters, rectal pressure:
  • Lifetech (800) 345-6443
  • Cook (800) 457-4448
• Catheters:
  Embolectomy, Biliary Embolectomy and Irrigation, Occlusion and Thermodilution, Balloon, Venous
  • American BioMed/Cathlab Division (800) 894-4418
  • World Medical Manufacturing Corp. (954) 846-0418
  • Walrus (800) 886-6741
• Catheres, condom:
  • Silicone:
    • Coloplast (800) 726-6362
    • Clear Advantage mentor (800) 235-5731
    • ConvaTec (800) 422-8811
    • Rochester Medical (800) 299-3266
• Catheters, indwelling urinary:
  • Silicone:
    • Kendall (800) 962-9888
    • Bard (800) 225-0927
    • Rusch
    • Rochester Medical (800) 299-3266
    • Mentor (800) 235-5731
    • Cook (800) 456-4448
• Catheters, urodynamics:
  • Double, triple lumen for urodynamics, Bard (800) 225-0927
  • Silicone feeding tubes, Mentor (800) 235-5731
  • Cook Urological (800) 593-2080
  • Lifetech (713) 495-9411
• Catheters, straight:
  • Mentor (800) 235-5731
  • Coloplast (800) 237-4555
  • RobNel Sherwood (800) 325-7472
  • Bard (800) 225-0927
• Dressings:
  Moleskin, Dyna-flex (J&J)
  • Tetra Medical Supply (800) 621-4041
  • Reston foam liner (3M)
  • Andover Coated Products (800) 432-6686
  • Cetra (888) LATEX-NO
  • Webril Kendall (508) 261-8000
  • Comfeel, Venigard, Opsite, Coloplast (800) 237-4555
  • Action Wrap, Coban (3M)
  • Xerofoam Sherwood (800) 325-7472
  • BDF Elastoplast
  • Note: Steri-Strips, Active Strips, Comfort Strips, flexible fabric adhesive band, Tegaderm, Tegasorb (3M) (800) 3M-HELPS; Curad Bandage (508) 261-8000 contain latex in outer package
• Elastic bandages:
  ace wraps, Esmarch, Elastikon (J&J)
  • Tetra Medical Supply (800) 621-4041
  • Esmark Deroyal (800) 251-9864
  • CoNco all cotton white elastic bandage
  • Adban adhesive compression bandage
  • X-Mark Avcor (800) 282-6748
  • Cover skin with cotton barrier
• Electrode pads, grounding:
  • Valleylab (800) 255-8522
  • 3M Red Dot electrodes #2330, 2269T, 2237, 2259, 2263, 2265, 2270, 9640 (with expiration dates 1999 or later) (800) 228-3957
  • Conmed (315) 797-8375
  • Dantec EKG & EMG (800) 835-9873
• Endotracheal Tubes, airways:
  • Mallinckrodt (800) 262-3654
  • Polemedco Airways (310) 577-1422
  • Shiley, Berman (617) 737-7855
  • Kendall (508) 261-8000
• Enema, ready to use:
  • Glycerin, Babylax Fleet, Latex Free Fleet (804) 528-4000
  • Theravac, Bowel Management Tube (MIC), cone irrigation set, ConvaTec (800) 422-8811
  • silicone retention cuff tip (Lafayette)
  • Fleet Bag Emena Vinyl
• Gloves: sterile, exam:
  • Vinyl, neoprene, polymers nitryl Allerderm (800) 365-6868
  • Nitril SafeSkin (800) 462-9989
  • Neolon, Sensicare, Tru-touch Maxxim (800) 727-7340
  • Tactyl 1,2 SmartPractice (800) 822-8956
  • Dermaprene Ansell (800) 927-8659
  • Allergard J&J (800) 526-3967
  • Duraprene Triflex Baxter, Neotech Regent (800) 843-8497
  • N-DEX Best (800) 241-0323
  • American Health & Safety (800) 522-7554
• IV access
  tubin injection ports (Y-sites, bags buretrol ports,PRN adapters in needleless systems
  • Cover Y-sizes
  • use stop cock for meds
  • do not puncture
  • flush all tubing before use
  • Use polymer injection caps
  • Walrus Gemini Imed (800) 854-2033
  • Angio-caths:
    • Insyte cathlons Becton Dickenson (888) 237-2762
    • SAFESITE B. Braun Medical Products (800) 258-9000
    • SmartSite IVAC Medical Systems (800) 482-IVAC
• Medication:
  vial stoppers
  • Remove latex stopper,
  • Eli-Lilly (800) LILLY-RX
  • Fujisawa (800) 888-7704 has some MMR, (Merck)
  • For Insulin: Advantajet (800) 991-4464
• OR masks, hats, shoe covers:
  • American Health & Safety (800) 522-7554
  • Kimberly-Clark (800) 524-3577
  • Tecnol (800) 826-5763
  • Sultan (800) 637-8582
  • Biotrol (800) 822-8550
• Oxygen masks, cannulas:
  • Remove elastic bands
  • check valve content
  • Cetra (888) LATEX-NO
  • Alternative Resources Catalog (880) 618-3129
• Peak Flow Meters:
  • Monaghan Medical (800) 833-9653
  • Ferris Medical (419) 535-7490
  • ENACT Health Management Systems (415) 967-0379
  • HealthScan (800) 902-1266
• Penrose drain:
  • (PVC) Zimmer Hemovac
  • (silicone) Jackson Pratt
• Protective sheets: (rubber)
  • Disposable Kimberly-Clark (800) 524-3577
• Pulse Oximeters:
  • Adult clip sensor by Nellcor (800) NELLCOR
  • cover digit with Tegaderm or Opsite
• Respirators:
  • Advantage MSA
  • Hepa-tech (Uvex)
  • PFR 95 Tecnol (800) 832-6651
• Resusitation Equipment:
  CPR "Annie's"
  • Breath of Life Pacfic Dental Rim (800) 298-9074
  • CPR manikins Laerdl (800) 431-1055
  • Mouth to Mask by Vital Signs (800) 932-0760
• Rubber reflex hammer
  • Cover with baggie
• Spacer:
  (for MDI inhalers)
  • ACE spacer Center Laboratories (800) 223-6837
  • Opti Haler, HealthScan (800) 902-1266
• Stethoscope tubing:
  • Cover w/ stockinette
  • ScopeCoat (800) 373-0747
  • Littman 3M (800) 3M-HELPS
• Suction tubing:
  • PVC Mallinckrodt (800) 955-9525
  • Ballard (800) 345-1595
  • Laerdal (800) 431-1055
  • Medline (800) MEDLINE
  • Kendall
• Surgical gowns, boots, drapes:
  • Kimberly-Clark (800) 524-3577
  • DeRoyal (800) 251-9864
• Syringes, disposable, auto injectable:
  • Norm-Ject Air-Tite (800) 231-7762
  • Terumo syringes (800) 231-7762
  • Epi-Pen by Center Labs (800) 223-6837
  • Abbotject
  • glass syringes
  • or prepare medication in syringe right before use
• Tape adhesive:
  • Microfoam, Micropore, Durapore, Transpore 3M (800) 3M-HELPS
  • Dermicel, Waterproof J&J (800) 526-3967
  • Mastisol Ferndale Laboratories (800) 621-6003
  • Andover Coated Products (800) 432-6686
• Tourniquet:
  • Cover with cloth
  • X-Tourn straps by Avcor (800) 282-6748
  • Children's Med Ventures (800) 377-3449
  • Velcro Pedic, Grafco, DeRoyal (800) 251-9864

Attention:

These companies have many of these products or can get them:

• DEROYAL Industries, Inc. has developed a Latex Safe "TracePack"&tm;. This contains latex-safe supplies and equipment for several procedures. You order exacly what you need, when you need it. It comes in a portable container, easy to store. For more information call: (800) 251-9864 (Brian Donahue)
• RELIACARE EXPRESS has a catalog of latex free products (800) 556-3210
• CETRA products for latex free living (888) LATEX-NO
• ALTERNATIVE RESOURCE CATALOG latex free products (800) 618-3129

References:

• A.L.E.R.T., Inc. Product Committe
• Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Asthma/Allergy Clinic
• Nursing Council, Spina Bifida Association of America
• New England Myclodysplasia Association
• Meerpol E., Leger R., Fronst J., latex allergy in patients with myclodysplasia and in healthcare providers: a double jeapardy. J>Urol Nurse 1993; 13:39-44
• Shapire E, Kelly KJ, Setlock MA, Suwalski KL, Meyers P. Complications of latex allergy. Dialogues in Pediatric Urology 1992 14(3):1-8
• Young MA, Meyers M, McCullouch LD, Brown LJ. Latex Allergy: a guide for perioperative nurses. AORN Journal 1992; 56:488-502