One of the first things you’ll want to do when your child has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is to order a medical id. There are a couple of different forms of ids but the most common are bracelets and necklaces.

In searching around, we found the site www.stickyj.com to be very useful. They have a lot of different options for the id as well as the chain used to attach it. The ordering system was quite straight forward and the id arrived faster than I had expected.

For ids, they allow you to create an inscription on the back. I wasn’t too sure what to do here so I simply had my son’s name inscribed on top and “Type 1″ inscribed below.

One hint, their inscription form has a couple of different lines. I found that placing the name on line 1 and the “Type 1″ on line 3 (instead of line 2) helped to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

One downside: we ordered the leather necklace for our id. After only a couple of months the clasp kept on falling off. Luckily our son didn’t lose the id. We’re now giving the rubber necklaces a try.

Also, as of Sept 2008, I found the following coupon code to work and give us 20% off: DAD2008.

Click here for medical id bracelets, medical charms, pendant medical id, and medical dog tag ids from Sticky Jewelry