First of all, whenever I get immunizations in America, the nurses wear latex gloves i think to stop germs. In Korea they dont even care, and dont wear gloves or anything. Is this less safe or clean?
2006-09-20 02:22:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
Wearing rubber gloves not only keeps the medical person from putting germs from their hands onto you. They take the gloves off after examining you and put on a new pair for the next patient. The answer is yes, It is not safe for medical people to not wear gloves when examing you.
2006-09-20 16:32:07 · answer #1 · answered by Medori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There always seems to be a lot of confusion over the use of gloves in a medical setting. Protecting the patient is definitely part of the but the primary reason is to protect the provider from what the patient might have. I am surprised that gloves are not used in hospitals in Korea but perhaps they are just not as paranoid in that country as we are here. I mean seriously folks we have become absolutely frightened here of the most common germs and I personally think it is getting out of control.
2006-09-20 09:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by Tulip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it is, god knows where their hands have been!!!!
2006-09-20 09:23:47 · answer #3 · answered by jeanjean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋