Medic Alert Tatoos

The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. - Unknown

Here’s a new idea reported on by USA Today. “Increasing numbers of people who have serious medical conditions, such as diabetes, are turning to tattooing to identify themselves on the chance a health emergency leaves them unable to communicate.” This is an alternative to wearing a medic alert bracelet that can break and fall off.

My mother wears a bracelet to warn medics that she has a dangerous allergy to penicillin. Other reasons for an alert tag include heart disease, dementia, organ transplant recipient, and hearing or speech impairment.

Bottom Line

Alert bracelets (and now tattoos) save lives. The web site, http://www.medicalert.org/ offers a wide choice of alert “jewelry”. Don’t like bracelets? Then how about an alert necklace or an alert watch in a wide choice of metals? The company http://www.laurenshope.com/ makes “stylish” medical bracelets for the fashion conscious.