Travelling With Everyday Medical Conditions can Become Life Threatening When They Can't be Communicated

Travelling With Everyday Medical Conditions can Become Life Threatening When They Can't be Communicated

LONDON, June 30, 2010--

    - New iPhone App Costs Just GBP2.39 - and Brings Peace of Mind to
Travellers

    SOS 4 Life, a company which provides medical mobile applications,
announces the launch of its 'Health Records' iPhone App dedicated to
providing peace of mind during a medical crisis whilst in a foreign country.
The application stores your most important medical information including
allergies, medical conditions and medication in a health record on your
mobile phone and provides an immediate translation of the health record into
Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch - without the need of
an internet connection.

    Even travellers who have such common conditions like Diabetes, High Blood
Pressure or allergies can easily be misdiagnosed and not receive the right
treatment for their condition when language barriers prevent doctors and
nurses from fully understanding the patient's problem. If the traveller's
conditions are more complex than that, the application can also cope, as it
currently has over 700 conditions pre-populated in its extensive
multi-lingual data base with more being added all the time. Users of the App
are encouraged to provide feedback and add conditions to the ever-growing
list.

    The product has been created in collaboration with more than 20 medical
practitioners across Europe and was the brainchild of Dr Heike Unverhau, a
German-born surgeon and A&E physician turned business consultant, who now
lives in the UK. Dr. Unverhau comments "SOS 4 Life has been created to help
people who travel, live or work abroad to take better care of their health.
We wanted to develop a convenient, helpful and reliable application that
would help people to live life to the full whilst minimising some of the
risks associated with international travel. Travelling increases our risk of
attracting disease by up to five times [G. Hasle, Oslo Travel Clinic, 2009,
at ISTN Conference], and few people are prepared for this situation. They
often don't realize that doctors need to know their medical history to help
effectively, especially when they have pre-existing conditions, take
medication or have allergies. They might be able to exchange a few words with
their doctor, but when it comes to medical facts this is rarely enough."

    The SOS 4 Life application is available for download from the iTunes
AppStore for currently just GBP 2.39 one-off in a holiday promotion.

   
    Contact:
    Dr med Heike Unverhau
    Travel Health Solutions LLP
    +44(0)7825121437
    heike@sos4life.org
    http://www.sos4life.org

Source: SOS 4 Life

Contact: Dr med Heike Unverhau, Travel Health Solutions LLP, +44(0)7825121437,   heike@sos4life.org