Knowledge About Occupational Latex Allergy Amongst Thai Nurses and Student Nurses (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION Natural rubber latex (NRL) can cause allergic symptoms in health care workers who use products containing these allergens in their daily work and it has been shown that the incidence of latex allergy in health care workers can usually be associated with exposure to latex allergens encountered at the workplace [1]. The prevalence of latex allergy in health care workers ranges from 2% to 18% [2,3], whilst in the general population, the prevalence of latex allergy ranges between 0.4%-2.3% [4].