Question about heating pads

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if those adhesive heat pads are natural rubber latex-free?

Comments

Checked the website

[maiden-midwife.livejournal.com]

According to the following website:

http://www.thermacare.com/index.shtml

The FAQ says that ThermaCare does not contain latex.

Re: Checked the website

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I actually didn't have time to stop and pick them up (super bad cramp day for me and a friend of mine ended up in the ER, so I went to stay with her), but it's good to know I can use them. I was too out of it to handle the website (much less remember the brand name).

[m00n.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know the answer to thus question, but I'd suggest looking it up on Google (http://www.google.com) by putting in the brand name followed by "rubber" or "latex" and seeing what you can find.

If you don't come up with anything there, I suggest you make another post to this community, but this time include a little more information about the specific heating pad you're using. I'm sure they all use different compounds.

Oh, and latex is natural rubber. It is extracted from the latex ducts of the Hevea tree (http://www.immune.com/rubber/nr1.html). The link is to a really interesting site on how latex allergies came to be.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

The word "latex" does not automatically refer to natural rubber, which is why I was specific. Yes, natural rubber latex = hevea brasiliensis (in almost all commercial cases, there is natural rubber latex made from gauyule (sp?), but it's not really used yet).

I have both Type I and Type IV natural rubber latex allergy, which means I have both an IgE mediated allergy to the natural rubber latex protein (hevea brasiliensis specific) and I have a chemical sensitivity to chemicals used in the production of natural rubber.