Web health advice

Looking for health advice is the third most common online activity, according to a new survey by Boots.com.

Of 2,295 survey respondents, 40 per cent said they spend a significant amount of time looking for health information, following social networking (53 per cent) and booking tickets (44 per cent).

The top five most researched conditions were

• The menopause
• Thrush
• Cystitis
• Chlamydia
• Haemorrhoids