Fitting for surgical gloves

Hello, I am about to purchase some surgical gloves online but I don't know what size I am. Any suggestion, they don't need to fit perfectly, but I don't want them too tight or super loose.

Better to be too loose than too tight Kusanagi775. Too tight would risk splitting.

Why not append a note to your online order stating the span at the third joints, where your four fingers join the palm - asking them to supply accordingly?

Thanks BigK, gotta another question the site I was looking at would charge me 32 euros for shipping so I need to find another site that would ship discreetly, my problem is I live in an apartment complex where all deliveries are made to the front desk and I don't want to explain a shipment of surgical gloves. Any suggestions?

First of all Kusanagi1775 few people buy and use surgical gloves - they buy and use latex or nitrile protective gloves which are adequate for examination purposes. That's why, in using gloves for invasive procedures, protective gloves will not suffice. They should be sterile gloves.

I see no problem with obtaining protective gloves from a store such as Walmart and I'm given to understand that your Wal-green drug stores in the US sell examination gloves and maybe sterile gloves. Remember though, if you are thinking of invasive procedures, such as catheterisation or urethral sounds that the first time sterile gloves touch any surface other than a specially created sterile field they are no longer sterile! There is even a method of donning sterile gloves to keep the outside of the glove sterile - ask me about this if you need to.

I detect though some embarrassment about purchasing such items. Your front desk is very unlikely to see on the outside of the package a description of the contents detailed enough to worry about, unless you order them from abroad in which case there might be a Customs label. Time to ask yourself perhaps why you need to worry in this day and age!

Hope this is useful to you.

If I was civilian I might be more inclined to order surgical gloves directly, but I am military and while alot of people are open minded in it there are a few close minded individual and the apartment I am in is totaly military because it's on base (It's a cross between apartments and barracks, all the amenities and comforts of an apartment, but the convenience and safety of being on base). I was getting the gloves for self play and for non-invasive play but I like the feel of surgical gloves better, I was able to get some on two occasions by pure luck and they hold a specialness for me. I might try wal-greens, I haven't heard of them selling sterile gloves though. Thank you for all the advice.

Can well now understand your reluctance to order online Kusanagi1775, given your military status and where you live.

I went to the Wal-greens online shop, typed in 'gloves' in the Search box - 99 hits, big selection of latex and others. Maybe when you're off base you could drop in though I guess they wouldn't stock all the lines that the online shop does.

Regards

BigK

Thanks BigK, lot of household and exam gloves, but no surgical. If worse come to worse I can deal with exam gloves but I am still hoping to find surgical gloves somewhere, thank you for all of your support.

I went ahead and bought size 7.5 gloves of off of ebay, not sure of the packaging, but I really wanted some surgical gloves! Thanks again for all of your help and support Big K.

Another option in the future would be to use the service that's similar to will call (UPS offers this service for free, not sure about Fedex), where the package will be delivered to one of the shipper's facilities and stay there until you pick it up physically. The problem is that this is usually only works with people you can interact with (i.e. sellers on ebay) and not the big online stores.

I did this once, and I would do it more except for the fact that I don't buy from ebay often.

I'd go get a po box at a kinks or ups store not a USPS po box but a place where a fed ex ups can drop off your packages and you pick up. Nobody will know.

7.5 is a medium size box of exam gloves. Im somewhere between a small and a medium so I go with a 7. 6.5 is pretty much a small.