Do latex paint fumes cause allergies?

Factual Questions
1

So, if you’re allergic to latex, will your body react to the paint fumes from latex paint?

Also, is it the case that if you have a latex allergy that you can’t touch walls painted with latex paint?

thanks.

2

No; latex paint is really an acrylic emulsion in water, and there’s no actual latex in it. Even the tiny amount of fumes/smell that are present in today’s paints are probably mostly solvent anyway.

3

A polymer emulsion is exactly what a latex is. It is a physical form of any repeating molecular structure.

I think by “latex allergy” they mean an allergy to a latex of naturally occurring polyisoprene, colloquially called “natural latex rubber”, and there is none of that in paint (I think).