What Color gloves.

Blue or purple, or whatever I have lying around really. I do think that black looks silly though and it can be hard to do a blood sweep with black gloves.

Try to avoid latex, it turns out that some people have a nasty reaction to latex.

Def the translucent ones, thats if going for kinky, the other coloured ones dont excite me.

Purple Nitrile ones are most definitely my favourite.

Nitrile ones are just as authentic, and very commonly used. They come in a wide variety of colors and some look just like latex ones. I actually questioned the gloves my butcher was wearing when he was cutting up an order for me. I am dangerously allergic to latex and I have reacted many times when food has been prepared from someone wearing latex gloves. My butcher showed me the box of gloves to prove to me they were not latex gloves he was wearing.

Latex allergies are VERY serious! NOT something to mess around with! All playdocs should ask before even putting on the gloves or taking them out of the box. If your play patient does have this allergy, you need to remove the gloves from your hands in a seperate room where they will not be and THOROUGHLY wash your hands!

If you are planning any sort of play where you will be using bandages such as bandaids, steri strips etc ask your playpatient about a latex allergy. It is common to pack bandaids in dry latex and to have latex in the bandage material.

I could easily write many volumes on the nightmare of this allergy. This allergy can and does cause countless additional reactions from mild to life threatening allergic reactions connected to latex allergies. Latex, natural rubber is in countless products, materials that are commonly and not so commonly thought about or easily known without asking about and or checking labels..

Andie

I would say that its very important you ask anyone you are playing with if they have a latex allergy. If you have ever witnessed and treated a severe life threatening anaphylactic reaction to latex you would only be too aware of the possible complications of overlooking such a simple procedure as ensuring a patient or healthcare professional possible allergy to latex. This is a Life threatening situation and in play situation you won't have the time or medication at hand, so caution is the best approach. If only is not what you want to be saying.

Nitrile gloves (Beige, Blue, Flesh Tone & Purple)....For the reasons both RN1993, Andie & others clearly explained....Extensive Dermatological & Bacteriological research here as well as other nations has proven correct that nitrile remains neutral, which causes no reaction whatsoever to those that have allergic conditions....Furthermore such research as well as consistent regular usage contributes to safe work practice by denying the opportunity of microbial / pathogenic transfer in medical enviroments..

Allergic response to latex can occur at ANY time over one's lifespan as does certain allergies themselves...Asthma being a prime example. And for those that may like /prefer the long variety (as in vet /agricultural /horticultural practice) they too are readily available in selective colours at a moderate price..

Those are good points too. And that can be one of the things to ask during your patient interview and/ or exam questions. I knew a paramedic who has a very severe latex allergy. She had to put a sign in her ambulance warning people not to bring latex in it

My fave colour of gloves are Sea Green Nitrile and Purple Nitrile Gloves , i dont like the Blue ones!

~Cookie

Amber latex gloves just like a Davol Travelfold fountain syringe and tubing.

I like white latex gloves or blue nitrile ones.

Currently have a box of black and purple/blue nitrile. Also a box of white sterile surgical gloves.

I use black nitrile gloves for play exams. My patients have never complained (or commented on them, except to request that gloves be used or not used during various parts of their exams).

A few years back I figured out how to get samples free (without stealing) and now I have my favorites black, blue, purple, and the traditional white.

James999s care to let us in on the secret of free gloves?

I prefer blue gloves

I like blue and purple nitrile, but I'll use white in a pinch. For some reason, black just seems a bit too sinister for me. Reminds me of auto garages and tattoo parlors.

I love black nitrile exam gloves

I like plain white latex exam gloves like the ones that have always been used on me in real exams. On occasion, I also enjoy a latex finger cot over the right index finger for rectal exams.

Only good old fashioned latex for me, unless the doctor is allergic

I prefer the older style latex gloves either amber or dark brown

Blue or Purple!!!!

I like blue gloves, because of a TV referance, "two by two hands of blue".

My sub likes the gloves to be latex or rubber. He has no color preference

Long and tight surgical gloves are my favorite, in either the classic white or black.

Does anyone else like when the doc switches colors for diff parts of the exam? Mouth maybe blue, genitals white, rectal exam black...based on how extensively you use them of course

No. I'm only into latex gloves, none else.

Blue.

I dont have any preference but i have seen many different gloves colors, the normal one in white and then the nitrile in white, green,blue and orange. The nitrile are on a trend because they dont dry the skin so much.

Also the nitrile are easier to put and dont break that easily

Personally I don't care as long as they are medical gloves to me that is all that matters

I think there is good reason to try several colors/types during an exam as well as other types of play. Tempting the senses with the unique feeling a pair of brilliant white latex exam gloves stirs up or adding to the tension with dark black ones can add alot to the experience. Somewhere in the middle the range of colors like purple, blue, silver all get a chance.

Long, tight surgical gloves are my favorite gloves (to see on others). As for the color, white or black tend to be my favorite.