Ask for someone else

For a mother who does not read, a sister with no phone of her own, or a woman a health worker saw this morning. You describe the situation — you do not sign her up for anything.

This is her question, not yours

This question is about the woman you are asking for, not about you. Anything a doctor writes back is educational information about her situation — it is not advice about your health, and it is not a diagnosis of hers.

You will get a private link so you can check it, add to it, and read the answer when it arrives. What you will not get is the power to put her question on a public page. That decision is hers and there is no form on this site that lets anyone make it for her.

How do you know her?

The doctor is told this, because it changes how the description should be read.

I am her daughter or son The doctor is told the description is second-hand, from someone close to her. I am her husband or partner The doctor is told the description is second-hand, from someone close to her. I am her mother or father The doctor is told the description is second-hand, from someone close to her. I am her sister or brother The doctor is told the description is second-hand, from someone close to her. Someone else in her family The doctor is told the description is second-hand, from someone in her household. A friend or a neighbour The doctor is told you are not in her household, so nothing is assumed about what you can see day to day. I am an ASHA, ANM or community health worker The doctor is told this is a worker’s description, so a symptom you say you observed is read as observed rather than reported. Something else The doctor is told only that you are not the person the question is about.

Whichever you pick, it grants nothing. Whichever you choose, it gives you exactly the same access: this one question, and no power to publish anything.

What would you like to ask about her?

Describe what is happening, in your own words

Write about the woman you are asking for — how long it has been going on, what has changed, what she has already tried. Leave out her name, her phone number and where she lives: none of that helps a doctor answer, and all of it identifies her.

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What is it about?

Which language should the answer be in?

Choose the language she reads, or the one you will read it to her in.

She can ask it herself instead

What happens to her question

A moderator reads it

And looks for anything in it that could identify her, before a doctor sees it.
A doctor answers it privately

You can read the answer with your link, and read it to her.
Nothing is published

Not unless she takes the question over herself and approves the exact wording. If she never does, it stays private permanently — and that is the correct outcome.

If she can ask for herself

It is worth a moment's thought. A question she sends herself is one she can follow, add to, and decide about without going through anybody — including you. Asking for her is for when that genuinely is not possible.

Open the ordinary Ask page

If this is urgent

AskHer is not an emergency service and nobody is watching this queue in real time. If she is bleeding heavily, in severe pain, feeling faint, or frightened for her safety, call 112 or go to the nearest hospital.

What to do right now

We do not ask for her name, her number or her age, and there is nowhere on this site to record them. What you type is the only thing about her that exists here.