Consumer Health Information
This site gives guidance on how to deal with common ailments
The Consumer Health Information Centre (CHIC) is an advice service set up to help you understand more about health, including hints and tips to stay healthy and ways to get back on your feet when illness strikes.
This site will also give you advice on what over-the-counter medicines are available to treat common ailments.
How to get advice
If you are suffering from a common illness e.g. a cold, this website enables you to search under your symptoms and will give you advice on how best to treat them. Read the Feeling Unwell section for more. If you would like to know what over-the-counter medicines are available to help relieve your symptoms go to Treat Your Symptoms section.
Sometimes you might want more in-depth information to take away and read about common ailments which can affect you and your family. The Health Information section of this site has detailed articles written by CHIC's professional panel on the most common conditions which affect us all day to day.