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Johannesburg detective Neil Probert, 25, was driving to Bloemfontein for a four-day break, when he blacked out behind the wheel of his car twenty kilometers before his destination. Neil rolled his car several times, throwing out of his vehicle. A passer-by who came across the accident picked Neil up and rushed him to Universitas Hospital, as there were no rescue vehicles in the immediate area.
Doctors found blood in Neil’s urine, an indication that he may be bleeding internally. Fearing that their patient had burst a kidney, the hospital staff immediately prepared to do an intravenous polygram (IVP). This procedure entails injecting an iodine solution into the circulation, which shows up on a screen which allows the doctors to scan for hemorrhaging.
“Wait!!!” Someone screamed. “He’s wearing a MedicAlert® bracelet on his wrist!!!”
The bracelet revealed that Neil is allergic to iodine. So, instead of conducting the IVP, doctors put Neil under close observation, constantly monitoring the blood in his urine. Fortunately the blood content in his urine began to decrease, signalling that the likelihood of a burst kidney was less.
Detective Probert looks back on the episode with gratitude. “All my life I’d been warned that iodine could kill me” he says. “Without my bracelet to sound off the alarm…, …I might not be alive today”.
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