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Bracelets are Important – Wear them!
Submitted by marta on Wed 01/07/2009 - 01:10
If you are allergic to peanuts, and you know it, then you should get yourself a bracelet and wear it. It is very important.
A bracelet with some little information about you could be a life saver in case you had an accidental peanut reaction wherever you are and whoever you are with. During this kind of emergencies, where you probably could not speak and need an alternative to speak for you, a bracelet proves to be helpful.
The information needed to be engraved on your bracelet is mostly your name, the medications that you take on a regular basis, your doctor’s contact number and your family/guard’s contact number. This information could be written similarly for both adults and children.
You do not have to worry about the shape and style of the bracelet; it is not always clinical, dull or lame, if you search you will probably come across lots of cool designs and you will find the one that best match your personality.

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There is a guy on ebay that sells medical allert stuff with for way cheaper that you could buy the necklace or what every you were getting then having it ingraved. I just ordered one for my son and it was only $15 for a bracelet and that was s&h and everything!!
The basic medicalert bracelets are about $9.99 each and there is also a special deal through the Food Allergy Initiative where your first year of Medicalert membership is free and so is the bracelet: http://www.medicalert.org/FAI/FAI.aspx
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Please take a look at the variety of options WELLalarm offers users as well. Our product line which is very diverse - it includes stickers for your cell phone (18 dollars with service included!), wallet cards, iron on clothing labels, and our WELLcharm necklaces and bracelets. We also have an adorable peanut charm that is EXTREMELY popular with children and adults (http://wellalarm.com/store/products.php?categoryId=13) ! Your first year of service is FREE with all WELLalarm jewelry products and as a peanutallergy.com user you are eligible to receive a 15% discount with the code: PeanutAllergy
One of the great features about wellalarm is will not only tell someone you have a peanut allergy, but it will tell them valuable that can save your life in an emergency including WHERE TO FIND YOUR EPI PEN! Our technology will also immediately notify emergency contacts in an emergency.