Ailments that make us all click

Chickenpox is the most searched for subject on the most popular health website in the UK.

Conditions linked to stress, infections and "embarrassing" illnesses also dominate people's health worries according to the list of NHS Direct's top 20 inquiries.

The information, "possibly the country's largest ever health snapshot", is derived from the nine million inquiries to the NHS Direct website in the past six months.

While chickenpox topped the chart with almost 111,800 searches, pregnancy came a close second with 108,600 inquiries.

The list contains a large number of worries associated with work-related stress and sensitive subjects such as sexually transmitted diseases.

Thrush (90,000 searches) and diabetes (83,000) occupy positions three and four, and in fifth place is irritable bowel syndrome, with 70,400 searches.

Here is the NHS Direct top 10 searches.