Medical ALert Bracelets???

Oh okay. Thanks for the explanation. Yeah that would make sense, if you should take them with food, but the amount of food you can eat is greatly minimized, then it makes that kind of difficult. Yeah, I was wondering why everyone was saying that should be on your medical id bracelet. I guess now I know. Except, yet again, if you are conscious enough to swallow something like that, might you be able to deny it at that point?

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I did read that you should keep it simple.... nothing too fancy..... so that it is easily recognizable as a Med ID bracelet to the paramedics or Dr's.

It's true that dextrose in an IV should not be a problem, but sometimes a diabetic is with it enough to take glucose out of a tube, but not really with it enough to know what they are doing.  I've had many patients who were not really in their right mind, but were with it enough for me to give a tube of dextrose to orally.  I'm not diabetic, but I would think if someone were that it might be worth it to have it on a band, but I don't know, but it is something to think about.  I have very rarely had to give a diabetic with a really low blood sugar anything other than oral interventions, and I've had patients who had blood sugars as low as in the 20's (granted not everyone with a blood sugar that low would even be awake, but some patients go very low often and are definitely very awake, just not making sense).  I haven't had surgery yet and don't wear a medical band yet, although I will probably get something after surgery, so I was only repeating what I'd seen other people say they had on theirs when this was discussed a few months ago.  :)

Just got done ordering my medic alert dog tags from fiddledeeids.com/ , and prior to entering my info I checked with my Sons GF who is a EMT and she suggested to include your I.C.E. phone number on the tag (dictionary.reference.com/browse/ICE+number) in addition to having that number in your cell phones address book