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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:
sunandstars · 05/02/2009 15:06

Sidge

Echinacea works!

NKffffffffaf4adf72X11034b50cc3 · 05/02/2009 15:42

threelittlefrogs tip 1

Pingubugaloo · 05/02/2009 16:33

Thumbwitch (tip 2)

Franbles · 05/02/2009 16:46

I agree with Whomovedmychocolate (tip 2) Cheap tissues are a complete no-no for sore noses. Why add to the misery?

jenpet · 05/02/2009 17:35

I'm thinking rhubarb just about has it all covered!

georgiemum · 05/02/2009 17:38

Definately Whomovedmychocolate tip 1

MaeBee · 05/02/2009 17:39

threadworm has good advice i reckon, but a bit late for most of us here! judging by her name i'd suggest she has more than a cold to worry about..

fanvampbooks · 05/02/2009 18:13

Leoness - very good!!

ceeb · 05/02/2009 18:29

In the States children are now told to cough into their sleeve rather than their hand - thereby reducing the risk of passing on any germs through their hands.

ceeb · 05/02/2009 18:32

I vote for Solo, as that makes sense and I hadn't heard it before!

3smum · 05/02/2009 19:34

the tip from leoness rings so true

chelmie · 05/02/2009 19:40

Definatley thumbwitch tip 2 GPs surgerys are full of sick people!!!!!!

PictureThis · 05/02/2009 20:17

I vote for Paperchase....made me snort with laughter

dreamygirl · 05/02/2009 20:20

Habbibu's tip definitely. Not enough people keep their germs at home in this country

rookiemater · 05/02/2009 20:26

I vote for Paperchase

mazzystartled · 05/02/2009 20:32

habbibu

fruity21 · 05/02/2009 20:41

liked bonsoiranna's tip about short nails and wrapping up

vonshiv · 05/02/2009 20:46

my vote goes to the tip "to wash your hands regularly". It really is the best advice, and stops you moving germs from your hands to your eyes, nose and face where they can enter your body and give you a cold. So get washing!

onetowatch · 05/02/2009 21:03

Rhubarb

EB00 · 05/02/2009 21:38

plantsitter - isn't it funny how they complain we don't care half the time and then when we start being all worried it drives them nuts?!

AnguaVonUberwald · 05/02/2009 21:44

StarlightMcKenzie

tussy · 05/02/2009 21:48

Sidge

tunise · 05/02/2009 21:49

whomovedmychocolate - tip 2. (colds are the only time i splash out on quality tissue!)

catok · 05/02/2009 22:11

Ohyoubadbadkitten with "Don't work in a school. Four members of our family in four different schools - we catch every cold going round!

antarctica · 05/02/2009 23:01

Thumbwitch (tip 2)