Handband in the News

For the third consecutive year, Le Tour de Langkawi and Bike Pure will seek to send out an anti-doping message through a partnership at the race. “Sponsors emphasize on positive media attention, and one single rider could destroy all this investment.” Bike Pure was set up several years ago in response to scandals in the sport, with the Irish-founded organisation encouraging fans and riders to show they wanted change. Associating with races such as the Tour de Langkawi is a good platform to continue that goal.   Continue reading →

CELEBRATE Valentine’s Day this year by showing your support for Library Lovers Day - an initiative to get people reading. Fairfield City libraries will mark the day by giving away free Love2Read wristbands and badges. This year, the day also falls within the National Year of Reading. Continue reading →

MORE than 1800 wristbands made by a Mosman resident to raise money for the family of a Queensland flood hero have been sold. The story of teen Jordan Rice, who gave his life to save his little brother Blake, so touched the heart of Landy Randall that she decided to raise money for the Rice family. She created a black...

A MOSMAN couple has managed to make maths fun by inventing silicone wristbands with the times tables. Michael and Landy Randall own Handband, a company that makes and sells customised silicone wristbands. They started the company in 2005 and have created several different versions of the wristbands, including the Mediband, which provides the bearer’s medical information such as allergies or blood type in case of emergencies, customised promotional bands and silicone digital watches. The idea for the times table band came up late last year. The bands, particularly the colourful ones that glow in the dark, had proved popular with children and the couple tried to devise ways to also make it educational. “We were just talking about ideas and said ‘oh, we could probably fit the multiplication times table (on the bands)’,” Ms Randall said. The pack comes with 12 bands with one times table on each, and the idea is to give the child one band to learn at a time. Continue reading →

EXPRESS.CO.UK YourHealth LITTLE Dylan Mott has a nut allergy so severe that a kiss from someone who has just eaten a walnut would be lethal if he didn’t immediately receive an injection of adrenaline. His mother Amanda will never forget the day Dylan, then a toddler, ate half a cashew nut. “He was sick immediately. His face and neck looked like he had been pushed into stinging nettles,” she says. “He was clawing at his throat because he couldn’t breathe. By the time the ambulance arrived he was blue and drooling because he could not swallow his saliva.” Fortunately, Amanda, 40, and her husband Richard, 39, from New Romney, Kent, are care workers and trained in first aid. Dylan had already been diagnosed with asthma-like symptoms and in the desperate minutes while the couple waited for paramedics they administered Dylan’s ventolin inhaler to try to keep his airways open. They were later told that without it their son would probably have died. Dylan, three, is now under the care of specialist doctors and skin-prick tests confirmed he is acutely sensitive to cashews, walnuts and Brazil nuts. The severity of his reaction leaves no doubt about the diagnosis. His parents carry two EpiPens for an auto-injection of adrenaline at all times and Dylan wears a Medibands wristband to alert others. All forms of allergy are rising but specialists are increasingly alarmed that many children have not been properly diagnosed and their healthis put at risk from exclusion diets that deprive them of crucial nutrients. Health watchdog the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) believes only one in five who claim to suffer an adverse reaction to food have a true allergy. Continue reading →