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NOW CLOSED: Vote for your top sniffle-busting tip - and you could win £500 of Center Parcs vouchers!

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HelenMumsnet · 03/02/2009 16:04

Hello. A while ago, all you lovely Mumsnetters gave us some brilliant tips for surviving winter colds and sniffles. Well, now we want to know which of those tips you think is the very best of all.

And, thanks to the very nice folk at Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissues, everyone who votes for their top tip will be in with the chance to win £500 of Center Parcs vouchers.

All you need to do is check out the tips and then click on the link at the bottom to come back to this thread and post the name of the Mumsnetter whose tip you liked best. (Some Mumsnetters have got more than one tip on the list, so if you're voting for one of them, please specify tip 1 or tip 2).

All votes must be posted on this thread by the closing date: midnight on Tuesday 24th February. Good luck!

OP posts:
grumpalumpa · 11/02/2009 16:06

has to be...

"Wear gloves in public and on public transport. Don't use money - use your cards. And if you smell nitrous oxide on anyone's breath, hold you own breath and turn away to breathe - their nose is making this gas to kill bugs they already have and they are infectious. Nitrous oxide smells 'cold' and metallic." Zazen (tip 1)

Especially when you travel on the tube evryday!!!

loulou33 · 11/02/2009 17:14

i vote for whomovedmychocolate for correctly identifying all toddlers as petri dishs of germs - how many times have i gone to kiss him and received a large dose of snot as well (yum) - i never learn though

dianemj · 11/02/2009 21:24

Slam bedroom door behind you. Ignore all hammering on floors from above. Doodle2U

R2G · 11/02/2009 23:27

Go totally over the top with sympathy: cold compresses; special soft tissues; making sure they're warm enough at every opportunity; appearing to be genuinely worried and wondering aloud if you ought to call the doctors; stroking brow; asking in soothing tones 'How are you feeling now?' just slightly too often. Freaks. Them. Out. Never seen such a quick recovery. plantsitter

Very funny- and it worked!!

Sazisi · 12/02/2009 14:55

Another vote for plantsitter:
Go totally over the top with sympathy: cold compresses; special soft tissues; making sure they're warm enough at every opportunity; appearing to be genuinely worried and wondering aloud if you ought to call the doctors; stroking brow; asking in soothing tones 'How are you feeling now?' just slightly too often. Freaks. Them. Out. Never seen such a quick recovery.

DH had a 'flu jab at work so I've not had a chance to try it out

MrsSchmaltzyMerryHenry · 12/02/2009 15:11

Can I vote for myself? I wouldn't have offered the tips if I didn't believe in them

I come from the Whatever Makes You Happy, Makes You Well school of medicine.

WibblyPigRocks · 12/02/2009 15:15

3littlefrogs (tip 2)

tiredandwornoutmum · 12/02/2009 15:22

I vote for Thumbwitch (tip 2), definitly stay away from the doctors surgery...the biggest breeding ground ever!

Pillow · 13/02/2009 13:38

Starlight McKenzie

kerrysharpe · 14/02/2009 00:51

Paperchase best by a mile !!!

northernsoul · 14/02/2009 14:20

i vote for flossish

aimingforthesky · 15/02/2009 13:38

Whomovedmychocolate (tip 1)

missluzy · 15/02/2009 14:03

Flossish definitely gets my vote!

pipsy76 · 15/02/2009 14:21

Zazen tip1

JODIEhadtoomanymincepies · 16/02/2009 07:51

Don't have children! Threadworm

Get my vote.

But I guess it's too late for that isn't it!!!!

rosie17 · 16/02/2009 08:53

"Move to another country" gets my vote!!

titchy · 16/02/2009 10:09

I like Threadworm's - 'Don't have children!'
Too late sadly.....

lovelylullaby · 16/02/2009 19:30

StarlightMcKenzie wins my vote - I always wondered how to get rid of annoying gunk!

GarryFlo · 16/02/2009 21:15

Its gotta be paperchase

SandiMary · 16/02/2009 21:53

Whomovedmychocolate (tip 2) - nothing worse than a dry sore cracked nose

hugeheadofhair · 16/02/2009 21:56

Another one for Paperchase here :0

jeffy22 · 17/02/2009 11:37

I vote for leoness
leave em on there own while you do something more interesting...lol

ra29needsabettername · 17/02/2009 11:41

ohyoubadbadkitten

dingdong05 · 17/02/2009 12:03

Buy soft tissues and loo roll. Do not skimp on these things - there's nothing worse than blowing a sore nose on chipboard-type paper. Whomovedmychocolate (tip 2)

pidge66 · 17/02/2009 19:31

Flossish wins it for me! Staying in sounds good to me!