An excellent question that we were asked last week. For those who don’t know, and that includes me, what exactly is Diabetes? It’s a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. I am not an expert in this, so we did the research.
Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes differ. The symptoms experienced in Type 1 which is an auto immune disease tend to appear quite quickly, here are some of the signs:
• Excessive thirst or hunger
• Frequent urination
• Unexplained weight loss
• Itchy skin of possible skin infections
• Feeling tired
• Irritability
• Blurred vision
The longer you have diabetes and the less controlled your blood sugar is the higher the risk of complications.
High blood sugar from diabetes can damage the nerves in your body and help keep your blood pressure steady. That could lead to low blood pressure that could make you pass out.
Having a BERTS Alert Diabetes medical alert ID bracelet can help first responders to identify the issue and provide appropriate care without delay.
If left untreated this could lead to a diabetic coma, so it’s even more important that first responders are alerted as quickly as possible to a person having diabetes.
All your medical information can be stored securely on the BERTS ALERT medical alert ID for Diabetes bracelet and accessed by entering an access code.
BERTS Alert Medical™ can alert the first responder to the situation so that appropriate care can be given. A photograph, a name and contact details, so important when talking with someone with this illness. To call them by their first name can help to calm what can often be a very confused and frightened person.