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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!

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inzidoodle · 03/02/2009 23:35

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browny · 03/02/2009 23:47

whomovedmychocolate

MumHadEnough · 03/02/2009 23:49

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) (who will forevermore be known by MNHQ as Jack Bauer)

This one gets my vote!

Mamazon · 03/02/2009 23:50

Flossish

IdrisTheDragon · 03/02/2009 23:51

Whomovedmychocolate (tip 1)

SpitSpot · 04/02/2009 11:22

plantsitter

Donkeyswife · 04/02/2009 11:39

3littlefrogs (tip 2 )

Use tissues to cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing. And either flush them or put them straight in the bin. Don't shake hands with others if you have a cold. 3littlefrogs (tip 2 )

paow · 04/02/2009 11:43

I'm voting for:
Stay at home. I'd rather one person was off work briefly than seven people sneezing and groaning all round me because of the extra infection. Work at home, I say! Habbibu

Thanks!

GrinnyPig · 04/02/2009 11:44

paperchase - it really is the only way

AttillaTheHan · 04/02/2009 11:52

I vote for Sidge.
I swear by echinacea too.

cremolafoam · 04/02/2009 11:57

i vote for expat.

Cies · 04/02/2009 11:57

I like Paperchase's tip

GreenEggsAndSpam · 04/02/2009 12:01

Leoness - man flu abandonment...

Bramshott · 04/02/2009 12:05

I like 3littlefrogs (tip 2) -

chucky · 04/02/2009 12:11

wash your hands frequently..........3little frogs (tip1)

sphil · 04/02/2009 12:14

Plantsitter for me - though I'd never manage it! DH being ill just makes me unreasonably grumpy.

BennyAndJoon · 04/02/2009 12:15

plantsitter

Shivs1974 · 04/02/2009 12:26

Habbibu gets my vote

clutteredup · 04/02/2009 12:43

plantsitter

JulesJules · 04/02/2009 12:48

I vote for TheDevilWearsPrimark.

(Love whisky macs!)

charleymouse · 04/02/2009 12:50

Stay at home. I'd rather one person was off work briefly than seven people sneezing and groaning all round me because of the extra infection. Work at home, I say! Habbibu

Actually more important keep your children at home some kids at nursery are a joke with their snot and gunk. Yucky

Poppycake · 04/02/2009 13:04

MrsGrouchoMarxMerryHenry tip one is easy to implement and more fun than washing your hands a lot

butterflymum · 04/02/2009 13:05

Habbibu

Bugs spread, so this tip makes sense!

Tamarto · 04/02/2009 13:10

Paperchase

LazyLinePainterJane · 04/02/2009 13:16

Paperchase