Most bandages either contain adhesive, or they need to be applied with adhesive tape. If someone is allergic to adhesive bandages or to latex, and is having the following symptoms, there are steps they can take to ease the uncomfortableness or take it away completely. Symptoms of the allergy would be a rash or redness, cracked or itchy skin, or blisters.<\/p>\n
The symptoms may get worse every time, or they may\u00a0 stay the same, depending if they’re caused by irritant or allergic contact dermatitis (with allergic contact dermatitis, symptoms may intensify). If these symptoms were from an adhesive allergy, then they’ll go away once the bandage is removed. You can test yourself to know without a doubt whether you have an adhesive allergy or not by going to get a patch test.<\/p>\n
Here are some tips which can help relieve the symptoms of an adhesive allergy if you are already having a mild allergic reaction to adhesive dressing. If the reaction is severe, reach out for medical help immediately.<\/p>\n
Here are a few tips that will help you to simply not use adhesive bandages at all!<\/p>\n
You can always place a non-adhesive bandage over the wound, and then use a tubular bandage<\/a> to hold it in place. There are actually different options of tubular bandages, and there are even ones designed specifically for use over certain body parts. Choose from this full selection of tubular bandages.<\/p>\n Shop Tubular Bandages<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Liquid bandages<\/a>\u00a0don’t usually contain adhesive – they’re sort of like a glue that covers the wound. As New-Skin advertises, it’s the bandage that stays on! This bandage really works; many of our customers who don’t have latex or adhesive allergies choose to use it over regular bandages. (If you’re allergic to many different things, you may be allergic to this too, but if you just happen to have one allergy, this is something to try.)<\/p>\n Shop Liquid Bandages<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you use a non-adhesive bandage, and then you secure it with hypoallergenic medical tape<\/a>, that should prevent allergies from flaring up.<\/p>\n Shop Hypoallergenic Medical Tape<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These wipes provide a thin layer of protection to the wound, and are not adhesive. This skin barrier film, Safe N Simple Skin Barrier Film Wipes<\/a>, is very gentle on skin, and is not likely to cause rashes. As one person says about it, “I’m allergic to everything and this works great!”<\/p>\n Shop Safe N Simple Film Wipes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At AvaCare Medical, we always do our best to supply everyone with medical supplies, no matter their circumstances.\u00a0If you’re looking for bandages for those allergic to adhesive or latex, you’ve come to the right place! We have a full selection of wound care products<\/a>, including items you can use if you’re allergic to adhesive bandages. We also carry all medical equipment, including manual wheelchairs<\/a>, adult diapers,<\/a>\u00a0chux pads,<\/a> hospital beds and walking aids.\u00a0 Shop now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most bandages either contain adhesive, or they need to be applied with adhesive tape. If someone is allergic to adhesive bandages or to latex, and is having the following symptoms, there are steps they can take to ease the uncomfortableness or take it away completely. Symptoms of the allergy would be a rash or redness, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[296,295,297,294],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-wound-care","tag-hypoallergenic-tape","tag-liquid-bandages","tag-skin-barrier-films","tag-tubular-bandages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avacaremedical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Liquid Bandages<\/h3>\n
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