If you personally survey the market, by surfing the Internet or by wading through the Yellow Pages or newspapers, you find a baffling variety of Medical Alert bracelets, if a bracelet is what your doctor has recommended. In a critical medical emergency, when you become helpless and cannot explain your condition, it is the medical information embedded in the bracelet that identifies you, along with the medical problem that is afflicting you. While the symptoms appearing at that critical moment baffle those around you, the medical description engraved on your bracelet may facilitate an early diagnosis, and an appropriate and timely treatment may save your life. The information legibly engraved on the front and backside of the bracelet also mentions the contact numbers of your family members and your doctor.

These bracelets come in a variety of attractive designs and price ranges. You can choose one that suits your pocket. They are made of sterling silver, gold or high-quality non-allergenic stainless steel polished to give a jewelry finish. Medical ID bracelets are available in all sizes for adults and children. The bracelet chains are fitted with a clasp that cannot open accidentally.

You should consult your doctor concerning what medical description about your problem should be engraved upon your bracelet. These bracelets can also be artistically fitted with transmitter buttons; pressing them activates some radio frequencies that raise an alarm in the base stations of the monitoring agency, which in turn alerts your family members and the doctor about the occurrence of the problem. The monitoring system talks directly to you in a very loud voice so that everyone can hear. In this way, medical aid or your relatives and friends can be summoned.

Their family members or caretakers have to go out for work, leaving them alone at home. Also, these sick persons too may have to work due to financial constraints. In some cases, particularly with old people, the spouse may have died and the children are far away. Then there are millions of persons living alone who are prone to medical emergencies. Problem may occur at night, when nobody is around. Even healthy persons, with their hectic lifestyles in work-to-meet-the-deadline environments, are vulnerable to various types of heart and brain diseases, accidents and food poisoning.

Medical Alerts, in such situations, can be of great help in summoning timely medical aid, though carrying or wearing these alerts does publicly advertise the sickness of the person. They identify the medical problems of the wearers. Unfortunately, this medical identification, though of critical importance for the patients, creates complexes in the minds of image-conscious wearers and hurt their sensibilities.

To overcome this problem, the designers of medical jewelry have come up with solutions in form of acceptable fashionable accessories, like pendants and bracelets, which are easy to use. They try to arrive at a compromise between the necessity of communicating the disease to medical experts and the ostensible awkwardness of wearing the alerts.

These Medical Alerts are in fact electronic gadgets fitted with transmitter buttons, embedded in the pendants, that send SOS signals to the monitoring agencies who in turn alert the friends and family members of the patients and, more importantly, their doctors. The signals are sent either by telephone or radio frequencies. Depending upon the nature of disease, various Medical Alerts are available in the market and their use can avert tragedy.