DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sajb.2025.v13i06.002

Pages: 647-650

The current digital era, where everyone has easy access to a smartphone, laptop, or tablet, caused a fulminant increase in the rise of Internet Derived Obstructing Treatment (IDIOT) syndrome. The Internet Derived Information Obstructing Treatment (IDIOT) syndrome or Cyberchondria occurs when patients abruptly quit their treatment because they have blindly trusted internet medical information. The rapid increase in internet use in the current digital era has caused a potential increase in anxiety, and a person either self-medicates or abruptly stops the drug for his medical illness, thereby the rise in the Internet Derived information Obstructing Treatment (IDIOT) syndrome. WHO calls this an Infodemic, which has created a complex situation in healthcare, as it has caused too much information in digital and physical environments during an outbreak of the disease and caused mistrust in health authorities. Patients must not merely believe healthcare related information available from online health resources and must seek the help of licensed healthcare professionals for their health concerns. There must be an increase in the awareness programs among the public to as not to fall as victims and blindly follow or abruptly stop their medical prescriptions for their medical illness from available online health resources.