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Most Googled Medical Symptom In Each State

I love when I go to the doctor and he/she says, “Stay off google!!!” But we can’t help ourselves. Right? It’s too easy to type in your symptom, and voila,…

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I love when I go to the doctor and he/she says, "Stay off google!!!" But we can't help ourselves. Right? It's too easy to type in your symptom, and voila, there's your answer. Or maybe not an answer or more often, something to terrify you. Someone pulled information from Google Trends to find the most searched symptoms and looked at them by state. "Nasal congestion" is what folks in Florida want to find out. It makes a lot of sense given our high pollen counts.

Some of the funny/ironic answers included:

Utah: morning sickness. Lots of births in Utah.
New York: loss of sleep. We know New Yorkers like to work hard and play hard.
Alaska: snoring. We know it's dark there much of part of the year so plenty of logs to saw.

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