How to Properly Take Off Disposable Latex Gloves

The purpose of wearing latex gloves is to protect your hands from whatever it is that you are going to be touching. However, you need to take them off carefully when you are finished in order to still continue having no contact with whatever it is you don't want on your hands. Here is a simple way how.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Notice the very edge of the latex glove on your wrist. It has a slightly raised edge going all around your wrist.

2. Bend your left arm so that your elbow is at your side, the rest of your arm is out in front of you and your palm is facing up. Flex your wrist so that your palm is now facing the direction that you are facing. This creates a little opening between your wrist and the latex glove. Keep your wrist in this position.

3. With the pointer finger and thumb of your RIGHT hand, carefully grab the raised edge of the latex glove that is on your left hand. Grab for the raised edge that is away from your skin so that you won't touch your skin with the latex glove still on your right hand.

4. Undo the position that your hand was in in step 4 and make a closed fist with your left hand.

5. While your hand is still in the closed fist position, very carefully start to pull (with your right hand on the left latex glove) the edge of the latex glove away from you.

6. As you open your left hand, carefully pull the glove completely off so that the glove is now inside out and hold it in your right hand.

7. Make a closed fist with your right hand with the glove from your left hand inside your closed fist.

8. Repeat the same steps that you used to take off the glove from your left hand but this time instead of grabbing the brim of the glove on the right hand, use your thumb and pointer finger from your left hand to pinch the very inside edge of the right glove. Go for the part of the glove that is sticking up. This way you have no skin contact and no contact with the outside of the right glove. When you pull the glove off and it is inside out, the glove that was on your left hand (considering that it is still inside your closed fist) will end up inside the right glove.

9. If you do it correctly, nothing will end up on your hands.

10. Wash your hands and wrists throughly to get the powder from the latex gloves off of your hands.

[LetsGetGreen]

on 9/4/2008 That is interesting!

[bookmom]

on 4/21/2008 Great article! If I ever have the occasion to wear latex gloves I'll know how to get them off. I only wish there were a pic or two for some of the steps.