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To: Jeffrey L. Henken who wrote (1463)	7/15/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: Dan Dieffenwierth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2887

Jeff, yesterday my wife, who is a court reporter, took the deposition of a female R.N. with 35 years experience who was filing a workers comp claim for latex allergy. She worked with a home health care company and about five years ago she started having rashes, hives, runny nose and watering eyes. She didn't know what it was and just treated it as a normal allergy. A short while back she went to Shand's in Gainesville to have a root canal done. After she was anesthetized and a dental dam(right?) put in place she was numb but felt something just wasn't right, so she got up and looked in the shiny paper towel dispenser to see her face. She described herself as looking like an alien!! The student dentist came back in and after seeing this called in two professors, two M.D.'s and a couple of Dentists. Shortly after that they gave her an injection of Benadryl. They determined then that she had an allergic reaction to the latex gloves and so forth. The doctors said that she would have gone into anaphylactic shock had she not received the Benadryl. She filed a claim for this on her workers compensation policy and it's in progress. She tried to get employment with other home health care companies and told them she needed a different type of gloves, etc. but they wouldn't supply these as they said they didn't know of such a thing as latex allergy. I wonder how many times this has to happen before somethings done about it. This lady's occupation is is gone for her. And to change occupation's at her age isn't easy. Just a tidbit to share. Dan