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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:
spudmasher · 03/02/2009 17:52

zazen tip 2

RupertTheBear · 03/02/2009 17:56

Paperchase

Jux · 03/02/2009 18:10

Plantsitter

(though I couldn't do it).

Suedonim · 03/02/2009 18:38

I seem to have missed the thread asking for tips, which is a shame because my grandpa had a never-fail cure for colds. Just take a double dose of Senakot then you'll be too scared to either cough or sneeze!

DwayneDibbley · 03/02/2009 19:10

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Flamesparrow · 03/02/2009 19:19

Threadworm

mollyroger · 03/02/2009 19:20

Frannyandzooey. She is right, Kiki Superfood tastes exactly like licking out the bottom of your fridge's veg compartment when you haven't cleaned it for three months.... but it does work!

tatty33 · 03/02/2009 19:23

Habbibu - I get so cross with people at work/ toddler groups that are obviously sick and infectious. Selfish and ignorant,pah!

sorry, you really just wanted a name not a rant.

Wallace · 03/02/2009 19:27

Threadworm

BoysAreLikeDogs · 03/02/2009 19:31

Starlight Mckenzie

dramaqueen · 03/02/2009 19:33

3littlefrogs (tip 2)

stardazzle · 03/02/2009 19:34

this ones my fav

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

LeninGrad · 03/02/2009 19:37

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jacobisaacsmum · 03/02/2009 19:44

echinacea

wuglet · 03/02/2009 19:44

Thumbwitch tip 2

(DOI: GP )

LooptheLoop · 03/02/2009 19:50

Hassled gets my vote.

babycino · 03/02/2009 19:57

whomovedmychocolate tip1 -really must remember that....

NorthernOne · 03/02/2009 19:57

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bodiddly · 03/02/2009 19:57

wholovedmychocolate tip 1

FrazzledFairyFay · 03/02/2009 19:58

Thumbwitch (tip 2)

pamplemousse · 03/02/2009 20:01

Frannyand Zooey - made me lol!

LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 20:04

Plantsitter on dealing with man-flu ridden DPs

sfxmum · 03/02/2009 20:05

Hassled

including variations of working in social and healthcare I would say

Feenie · 03/02/2009 20:06

Plantsitter - she made me laugh. I am going to try that one as soon as I can!

Lilyloo · 03/02/2009 20:07

whomovedmychocolate tip 1