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Medical alert bracelet text

Jan 12, 2011 13:20

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wiredhound January 12 2011, 18:32:54 UTC

Medic alert bracelets are useful when you're too sick to communicate. For your diabetes I'd just have "diabetes" on the bracelet. That's enough to trigger the correct treatment protocols for a first responder. More info could confuse the first responder and delay treatment you need.

I can't advise you on bipolar other than to keep it simple too. It may or may not be useful to put your medication on there.

This question has come up before in this community so there might be some old responses online too.

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jjlv64 January 13 2011, 00:42:11 UTC

agreed. i think "diabetes" alone will lead to the automatic assumption that the OP is T2 (even with a pump attached i still assume mistakes will be made).

I would put T1/IDDM/insulin dependent on there. personally i would also add novolog/humolog/whatever

je5s January 13 2011, 04:19:06 UTC

Although for what it's worth, any emergency responders are trained to always immediately take a person's blood sugar if they are incoherent or unconscious, regardless of whether they have a medic alert or not. After I learned that from my EMT friend, I stopped wearing my bracelet most of the time. Still carry a wallet card though.

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rainbow_goddess January 12 2011, 20:29:13 UTC

Mine says:

diabetes mellitus
asthma
allergic to sulfa drugs

highandrandom January 12 2011, 21:07:33 UTC

Mine says: T1 Diabetes on Insulin Pump - Do Not Remove Unless Medically Advised.

bricktor January 13 2011, 11:16:23 UTC

Just curious, is that a routine thing to do? Under which circumstances would a pump be removed from your body by a medic?

highandrandom January 13 2011, 11:24:51 UTC

I don't think it's an issue for the medic, more an issue for family members/friends who think they're doing the right thing. (eg. if you've had a hypo - they want to stop you getting insulin - so they might disconnect it.) I also participate in a lot of sport where I have to disconnect - so I imagine that it would suggest to any medic that it be reconnected.

I don't know if there is a circumstance where a medic might remove the pump (unless it was clearly malfunctioning I guess). That's just what my Endo told me to put on.

bricktor January 13 2011, 11:32:40 UTC

Ahh gotcha, makes sense.

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krysta_ttc January 12 2011, 21:16:29 UTC

Mine has my name on the front, and on the back it says:
"Type 1 Diabetic
Insulin Dependent"