Disposable Vinyl Gloves and their Applications in the Healthcare Industry

For a lot of industries, the transmission of germs, viruses and bacteria during normal practice is a high risk function that is to be avoided at all costs. Medicine and the food and beverage industry along with cleaning and pharmaceutics are broad examples of these. For these industries operating conditions in theory have to be as sterile as possible to ensure that the highest standards of practice are maintained. In reality though this is not possible in all instances except when there is an extreme amount of monitoring of the working area. That is why a number of other subsidiary tools are implemented to raise the effectiveness of infection and germ barricading. The use of disposable vinyl gloves is one such practice that is widely employed to control the transmission of germs via tactile actions.

The use of disposable vinyl gloves in the work environment is extremely beneficial because it safeguards the wearer from coming into contact with any foreign agent and also at the same time protects others from the wearer if the wearer is infected. These gloves are generally made of high quality PVC which is a synthetic vinyl polymer and completely bereft of the allergen properties that are sometimes observed in the use of natural substances like latex in glove making. The use of disposable vinyl gloves is highly effective in areas like hospitals or kitchens where there is a liability of high frequency contact with multiple objects or people. What is best about this situation is that there is absolutely no loss of dexterity because the vinyl gives an almost bare skin feeling to the wearer.

Disposable vinyl gloves come in a variety of sizes that have been carefully adapted studying the anatomical nature of various human hands and are made to fit various hand sizes. These gloves are available in two varieties powdered and without powder coatings. The effect of these is that the powdered vinyl gloves are easier to put on and take off and the cornstarch coating inside them helps in the absorption of perspiration due to long amounts of time spent wearing them.

Disposable vinyl gloves are also used in housekeeping and cleaning services because of the resistance that the PVC material has to hard chemicals used in cleaning and also because it resists bacterial and germ transmission. Another reason for the popularity of vinyl gloves in the market is the relative cost effectiveness of the operation which is important because disposable gloves inherently have a short life cycle and it is therefore important that costs also reflect that. Vinyl gloves with all their advantages are almost twice as cheap to make as compared to latex gloves which is why the latter is mostly confined to high end medical uses while vinyl is widely regarded s the best choice for less heavy and yet equally frequent use elsewhere.

Vinyl gloves are a cheap, highly effective and hassle free way of ensuring safety in environments rife with potential infections. No wonder more and more agencies are turning towards them.


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