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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 12468" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It sounds increasingly like the best medallion for those with a complex story/long list of medications/allergies plus frequent changes, is the sort with inserted paper strip. With my new medallion, husband hand-wrote everything on my strip and even though he was careful, it was a bit cramped. When he transferred it onto the computer (like a mini-text file!) the printout is much easier to read AND leaves room for any more info. It's amazing what we've fitted in there. And if it's changed tomorrow, I can have a new paper strip updated and inserted within five minutes (the extra time is because I would need to get the scissors and cut out the paper strip to fit my medallion).</p><p>There is nothing on my medallion to say that I have a neurological condition, but it does make it clear, close-up, that it contains vital information. I still have confidentiality from the general public unless I'm downed for any reason and someone opens it up.</p><p></p><p>For most people with maybe just a single diagnosis or one or two allergies, an engraved disc would be enough. For anyone with more detailed information needed to be conveyed, get something with the paper strip. And make sure that the container has some sort of waterproof seal (mine has a tiny rub-ber gasket, replaceable if damaged, although I've never had a problem like that). I bath wearing mine, swim with it, shower with it and it's never been water-affected. I have to take it off for MRIs and X-rays (and during surgery) but otherwise it stays on.</p><p></p><p>Some medallions do give contact to a website or phone number, but there are potential pitfalls in relying on this alone - what if the phone number is not staffed 24/7? What if you're injured somewhere away from phones or computers? I can just visualise an emergency - some bystander has rushed up to try to help, they did a first aid course about six years ago, you're lying there in anaphylaxis, they see your medallion, they call the number - and get put on hold while they listen to "Girl From Ipanema" or similar.</p><p></p><p>Having the phone or website as a back-up and perhaps larger repository for information would be useful, but whatever you use needs to be self-contained and rapidly accessible.</p><p></p><p>My mother used to wear a medallion that had her hospital name and file number written on it. In an emergency people were supposed to call the hospital and ask for her file. It still took time and still backfired at times. Once she had an asthma attack in the heart of Sydney, got taken to the nearest hospital (not hers) and they did the right thing and called her hospital to ask for her file and talk to her doctor. But their misdiagnosis ("she's having a heart attack" - she wasn't) almost had them giving her a medication she knew she was violently allergic to. Fortunately she was conscious but she had to violently object and they almost sedated her to medicate her. But the hospital file number was the best way for her to go back then, as there were no medallions with paper strip options in those days.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 12468, member: 1991"] It sounds increasingly like the best medallion for those with a complex story/long list of medications/allergies plus frequent changes, is the sort with inserted paper strip. With my new medallion, husband hand-wrote everything on my strip and even though he was careful, it was a bit cramped. When he transferred it onto the computer (like a mini-text file!) the printout is much easier to read AND leaves room for any more info. It's amazing what we've fitted in there. And if it's changed tomorrow, I can have a new paper strip updated and inserted within five minutes (the extra time is because I would need to get the scissors and cut out the paper strip to fit my medallion). There is nothing on my medallion to say that I have a neurological condition, but it does make it clear, close-up, that it contains vital information. I still have confidentiality from the general public unless I'm downed for any reason and someone opens it up. For most people with maybe just a single diagnosis or one or two allergies, an engraved disc would be enough. For anyone with more detailed information needed to be conveyed, get something with the paper strip. And make sure that the container has some sort of waterproof seal (mine has a tiny rub-ber gasket, replaceable if damaged, although I've never had a problem like that). I bath wearing mine, swim with it, shower with it and it's never been water-affected. I have to take it off for MRIs and X-rays (and during surgery) but otherwise it stays on. Some medallions do give contact to a website or phone number, but there are potential pitfalls in relying on this alone - what if the phone number is not staffed 24/7? What if you're injured somewhere away from phones or computers? I can just visualise an emergency - some bystander has rushed up to try to help, they did a first aid course about six years ago, you're lying there in anaphylaxis, they see your medallion, they call the number - and get put on hold while they listen to "Girl From Ipanema" or similar. Having the phone or website as a back-up and perhaps larger repository for information would be useful, but whatever you use needs to be self-contained and rapidly accessible. My mother used to wear a medallion that had her hospital name and file number written on it. In an emergency people were supposed to call the hospital and ask for her file. It still took time and still backfired at times. Once she had an asthma attack in the heart of Sydney, got taken to the nearest hospital (not hers) and they did the right thing and called her hospital to ask for her file and talk to her doctor. But their misdiagnosis ("she's having a heart attack" - she wasn't) almost had them giving her a medication she knew she was violently allergic to. Fortunately she was conscious but she had to violently object and they almost sedated her to medicate her. But the hospital file number was the best way for her to go back then, as there were no medallions with paper strip options in those days. Marg [/QUOTE]
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