Am i going crazy, looking for health info online?

[Greenmum100]

Got a Q about some health thing then I google. About my/family/friends health all the time. Anyone else? But how can i be sure what I find is legit? From looking for something to treat headlice (bain of my life!!), to managing crazy periods, quick mum-tum fix, and even the extreme of fruit juice+mind control to tackle serious stuff.... some websites are just crazy, others helpful, but the most useful advice/ answers arent all on NHS websites. I don't want to be making bad decisions on dodegy ground. Suppose I should d/w GP/call nhs direct - but then I am some crazy mad woman hypochondriac. Anyone else do this? How do you sense check stuff?

I look for nhs or uk sites. I do it allll the time

I diagnosed dds friend with chrons disease before her GP considered referring her.

Is the provider trying to sell you something, do they have products for sale on their website? Do they promote conspiracy theories? Do they say you must not believe 'mainstream media'? Do they offer up no credentials such as relevant university degrees?

These are signs that they are talking rubbish.

Good ideas esp the point on trying to sell you stuff.. makes you think is there "fake health" like "fake news"? Probably.

About 2004 there was a lot of concern about fake health information online. The Macedonian teenager-employing factories of fake news used to make their main money out of recycling & inventing health stories, before they discovered how lucrative it was to invent crazy political stories.

We don't talk about it so much now, but the crap is still out there, everywhere.