Latex is a class of polymer which can be either natural or synthetic. Natural latex is derived from the sap of the rubber tree, a tropical plant originating in the Amazon (and now grown widely in tropical climates including Malaysia, Indonesia and India).<\/p>\n Latex is used to manufacture rubber, including gloves, condoms, car parts, elastic bands etc.<\/p>\n About latex rubber and allergies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[215],"tags":[62,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNatural latex can cause allergies<\/a> for a rather high proportion of the population, especially medical workers (see latex allergy<\/a> article).<\/p>\n
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