5 Things You Should Always Put In Your Ice Contact

CHICAGO - Jan. 13, 2016 - PRLog -- When it comes to ICE Contacts, some pieces of information are more important than others.

Most people already know that their smartphone can save their life.  And they also know that the best way to do that is by putting an ICE (in case of emergency) Contact on their phone.  But many people simply type their emergency contact's name and phone number into a blank contact and stop there.   What they don't realize is that they are missing out on a real opportunity to let their phone do the talking for them in a medical emergency.

In fact there are FIVE things that everyone with a smartphone (or even a regular old cell phone) should always put in his or her ICE Contact.   ·

1. Your Medical History:   What to include, what not to include and how to make it fit inside your contact no matter what type of phone you have. ·

2. Your Prescription Medications:  Where to put it and what to include. Unfortunately, we found this one out the hard way.   ·

3. Your Contact's Social Media Links:  Why it's a good idea to include your contact's email, IM, Twitter and Facebook handles. ·

4. Alternate Numbers For Your Contact: You never know when or where an emergency might occur.  Make sure your "person" is findable no matter what! ·

5. Your Contact's Relationship To You: How to indicate it, where to put it and if you have more than one ICE Contact (we recommend 3) how to rank who you want called first.

Mother and daughter writing team Laura and Janet Greenwald, co-authors of the new book The ICE My Phone Kit, learned the importance of ICE Contacts when a simple fall sent Jan's 71 year old mother Elaine to the hospital.  "The main reason Grandma passed away wasn't the fall," says Greenwald.  "It was because the hospital treating her didn't have an updated list of her prescription medications and gave her medication that interacted with what she was already taking.  An ICE Contact containing all of the RIGHT information would have easily saved her life."

With urban violence at an all-time high and tornado and hurricane season right around the corner, your readers and viewers need to know how to turn their smartphones into real life savers.   This is one instance where spending five minutes with your phone truly can save your life!

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About The Greenwalds Laura and Janet Greenwald are one of the only mother/daughter writing teams in the entertainment industry.   After the untimely death of a loved one, Laura & Jan Greenwald joined forces with legislators to enact three Next of Kin Laws in two states, before going on to create the Notify In 7 training system and the upcoming Call My Family mobile app.  Between their books The Backup Plan 3.0 and The ICE My Phone Kit and their Backup Plan Blog, over 300,000 people have used Laura and Jan's shortcut sheets and family action plans to keep themselves, their homes, their families and the things that they love, safe and secure.  The Greenwalds are currently based in Chicago.

About The ICE My Phone Kit  In The ICE My Phone Kit, readers will learn how to put an ICE Contact on every type of phone, the right way, in less than five minutes. For more information, visit www.getyourstufftogether.com or download a sample copy of the book (http://getyourstufftogether.com/download/newicemyphonekit...).  The book is available in paperback at Amazon and in the downloadable PDF edition at Gumroad.