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Looking for information if anyone can help, I'm looking to seeing you can get treatment card holders. I now have to carry a steroid card, warfarin card and a Rituximab card. Don't always need to carry a wallet and just wondering if there's any lightweight card holders out there for them and where to get them too

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PMRpro

What size are these cards? That does make quite difference as to what anyone could suggest. My steroid card fits in my purse, my husbands warfarin cars is more than twice the size - I have no idea what a rituximab card is like.

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Basically all credit card size but just wondering if you can buy card holders for these as I said i don't carry a wallet that often and just looking for something small enough to put these in

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If they are that small, have you looked at the various credit card holders you get these days? Or a simple coin purse? As a woman I never go anywhere without a handbag so it isn't a problem - and OH uses it too much to my disgust...

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Shorthouse

I just write any drugs I’m on on a piece of paper .just in my very small bag .with next of kin no.

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Lupiknits

As well as the small flip over credit card holders Pro suggests, if you have an iPhone that you carry, there is a switch for vital medical info that can be used in an emergency by professionals. It bypasses your passcode on a locked phone but helps with the info needed in an emergency. It only allows access to that info

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Cheers

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Peppytea in reply toLupiknits

Brilliant idea Lupiknits - thank you very much! Hopefully downloading the right one - why aren’t doctors pushing this app to help emergency services?!

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Lupiknits in reply toPeppytea

As with most things, I learned it here! I don’t know if it’s only iPhones but if you take a look at the screen when it asks for your passcode, at the bottom and on the left, it says “emergency” and that is where your code can be bypassed to input anything vital that emergency medics need to know. I think they all know to try this better than we do.

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Fennella02

What about an SOS bracelet or necklace? You could have everything written in small print, difficult to lose easy for anyone to find in an emergency x

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Hadn't thought of that, I'll give it a look. Thank you

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