I’ve always opted for wearing the bracelets, ideally you want this information to be on you at all times as Diabetes is obviously a 24/7 job and you never know when you might next hit an alteration that requires external help, make sure you are comfortable with whatever you purchase to display this information, it’s effectiveness is obviously going to wane if you’re only wearing it half the time.
The only real issue I’ve had with the (metal) bracelets is the links between the display area/medic alert symbol and chain tend to erode over time, my last brace was either stainless steel or titanium and this still happened.
It’s also handy to display other medical information, should you wish to do so.
Not even just a “diabetes alteration”, but something like getting in an accident or something like that. If you lose consciousness and the trauma docs don’t get your hx, it could be hours before they figure out you have diabetes as a CBC w/ elevated glucose is not unusual in trama patients.
YES. Within the first few months of using insulin, your blood glucose lowers and the dosage may be too nigh, so lows are common. I’m very cheap: I have a kids sport band, black, with the tag saying: Type 1 insulin using contact daughter’s first name & her phone. The sport band can be cut to size, the plastic connector works, and it’s next to my watch where my grandson, a paramedic, says he’d see it.
