Where is your info coming from?

This past week I was looking into purchasing a new camera so --I googled it. Last week, I needed directions to a new restaurant--I searched the Internet for it. Tomorrow I am sure I will look up the current movie reviews by looking at my good old reliable "Fandango". No matter where our information comes from we need to make sure that we are educating ourselves with GOOD information.
We know that we live in a new day in age where people use computers, smart phones, or IPads to look up all different type of information. I am sure MOST of us have "googled" a diagnosis or a prescription to see more information on it. We want to make sure that you are getting your information from correct sources. Generally speaking, most information found with .EDU or .ORG should be a reliable health source, along with the AAP and CDC. Here are a few websites that we recommend:

http://www.healthychildren.org/ (AAP Symptom checker)
http://www.aap.org/ (American Acedemy Pediatrics)
http://autismcouncilofutah.org/
http://www.cpsc.org/

Thanks to Dr Jopling for providing this arcicle that was published in Jan 2011

LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people looking for health information online is set to soar as workers return from holiday breaks, but few will check where the information comes from, according to an international survey on Tuesday.
A report by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) commissioned by the private healthcare firm Bupa said that with smartphones and tablet computers set to outsell personal computers by 2012, more health information is available online and there are more ways to access it than ever before.
The Bupa Health Pulse survey questioned more than 12,000 people in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and the United States and found that 81 percent of those with internet access use it to search for advice about health, medicines or medical conditions.
Russians search for health advice the most on the internet, followed by China, India, Mexico and Brazil. The French search for online health information the least, according to the survey's findings.
It also found that 68 percent of those who have access have used the internet to look for information about specific medicines and nearly 4 in 10 use it to look for other patients' experiences of a condition.
"New technologies are helping more people around the world to find out more about their health and to make better informed decisions. However, people need to make sure that the information they find will make them better, not worse," said David McDaid, a senior research fellow at the LSE.
In Britain, where Bupa predicted there would be 40 million hits on health websites this week as people make New Year's resolutions after their Christmas break, experts warned that much online health content is unchecked and people would struggle to know what to trust.
The survey found that of the 73 percent of Britons who say they go online for health information, more than six in 10 look for information about medicines and more than half of them, or 58 percent, use the information to self diagnose.
Yet only a quarter of people say they check where their online advice has come from.
"Relying on dodgy information can easily lead to people taking risks with inappropriate tests and treatments, wasting money and causing unnecessary worry," said Annabel Bentley, a medical director at Bupa.
"Equally, people may check online and dismiss serious symptoms when they should get advice from a doctor."

As you seek parenting or medical information on your own, we can recommend books, web sites and local organizations or services. Please feel free to contact us to help you get your "GOOD" information for your child.