Medic Alert bracelet vs. other

There is space to engrave some information besides the medic alert number. DD's says, "Allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, amoxicillin" DS's says, "Allergic to eggs, in emergency treat with Benadryl &/or Epipen." You can call on the phone and discuss what you want engraved.

[url="http://www.medicalert.org"]www.medicalert.org[/url]

Cathy

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Mom to 7 yr old PA/TNA daughter and 3 1/2 yr old son who is allergic to eggs.

My DS medic alert lists allergens and says "carries epi". Hope that helps

Ok that is what I needed to know. This sounds great. The website says small is a 5", DS is only 18mo old do they have anything small enough for him or do I need to have links taken out?

We had to have links removed for our 14 month old daughter.

Jeweler was happy to help, and only charged us a couple of bucks-- and did it while we waited. [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

I had some child-sized rubber braclets made for my son in his favorite colors. They say Alert Severe Nut Allergy. I should have put a phone number on too (next time). Check out [url="http://www.reminderband.com."]www.reminderband.com.[/url] Minimum order of 20, but we have already lost a few! Much better than the medic alert braclet I had bought.

jennys

Those rubber bracelets are a great idea, and I'm sure DS would be happier to wear that than his regular one. The only question I have, though, is whether people would look at it in an emergency. I think they would be apt to think it is just another rubber bracelet and not actually read it.

repeating myself I know...

But I would NOT go with ANYONE else but Medic Alert. I dont know why [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

Just because.

Jason

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[b]* Obsessed * [/b]

Quote:Originally posted by Jimmy's mom:
[b]Those rubber bracelets are a great idea, and I'm sure DS would be happier to wear that than his regular one. The only question I have, though, is whether people would look at it in an emergency. I think they would be apt to think it is just another rubber bracelet and not actually read it.[/b]

This was along my lines of thinking when I got a medical bracelet. There are so many out there in different colors and different emblems...that I decided to get plain old red emblem with that fat-asterisk style medical symbol. It seems that is what people recognize. They may not immediately see a purple emblem, or one of the snake/staff emblems, etc. I'm not so much worried about the EMTs/emergency staff...but just general folk who would first help me in an emergency.

I bought an engraveable silver bracelet with an embedded red medical symbol at a jeweler, engraved the back MedicAlert style, and then made my own beaded bracelet using sturdy wire (Tiger wire). I'm an adult and it gets treated like my $100 watch, so there's no real wear and tear on it.

In any event...I second the "recognizability" of a silver or gold plate/tag with the red medical symbol as being universally recognizable.

Adrienne

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30-something survivor of severe peanut/tree nut allergy

Ds has a "generic" medical bracelet but the red on the symbol has worn of. Now I'm thinking that could pose a problem if needed. Since most people who see it just assume it's costume jewlery. He tells them right away what it's for "no peanuts or fish except yummy gold fish crackers" he's 3 [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/wink.gif[/img] Of course if he's not able to communicate would they think to flip it over?

The medic-alert bracelets no longer have the red on them - just an embossed symbol. Does your son's bracelet still show some kind of symbol?

Personally, I've always been a 100% supporter of the *real* medic-alert. But, now they want $40 a year per person for membership. Without the membership you cannot order things, or get your bracelet repaired. In 20 years, with four of us wearing medic-alerts, we have had to have bracelets resized (about 5 times total). And the e-belt was a bit cheaper through them then elsewhere. (Maybe about 5 - 10 dollars?)

That's really not worth $160 a year to me. I'll be searching for something else next time. Although - I do still believe the REAL medic-alert is the best.

Quote:Originally posted by AnnaMarie:
[b]The medic-alert bracelets no longer have the red on them - just an embossed symbol. Does your son's bracelet still show some kind of symbol?

Personally, I've always been a 100% supporter of the *real* medic-alert. But, now they want $40 a year per person for membership. Without the membership you cannot order things, or get your bracelet repaired. In 20 years, with four of us wearing medic-alerts, we have had to have bracelets resized (about 5 times total). And the e-belt was a bit cheaper through them then elsewhere. (Maybe about 5 - 10 dollars?)

That's really not worth $160 a year to me. I'll be searching for something else next time. Although - I do still believe the REAL medic-alert is the best.[/b]

Hmmm...in their online catalog they still have red emblems, but I guess it probably depends on what sort of bracelet you have. They have red in the football shaped ones (for lack of a better description)...

Adrienne

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30-something survivor of severe peanut/tree nut allergy

the symbol is still on it, just that the red is no longer on it, so it doesn't stand out quite as nice. We've had it resized at a local jewler's for $8. So far it still fits him fine, but I imagine it'll need to go up a size by jan.

We ordered the new beaded medic-alert bracelet,ours is in pink.Still to big (the new one),we took the old links and made it smaller on the inside of the new one allmost like a safety chain.She loves it!

Would not go with anything else other then [b]Medic-alert[/b] [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

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Love this site
Synthia

Forgot to add we all so received a window sticker for our car.

[This message has been edited by synthia (edited July 25, 2006).]

DO NOT buy a beaded medicalert bracelet. I have tried so many and they all have broken. The anklets are especially incomfortable. I gave up on beaded ones, but still did not want to wear an ugly bracelet that was an obvious distinction of my allergy. Instead I went to Tiffany & Co. and used their medical bracelet template and engraved "Peanut Allergy" on it. I'be had it for years, and it is one of the best investments I've made