I love all things blood and guts related (hence my biology degree), except when it is coming from my kids. Blood, especially if it is profuse, can send me into a panic and snot – well snot is just gross. I’m bracing myself with the impending arrival of cold/flu season.
Between last post and this one, can you tell, I really don’t like having sick kids? I also am not a big fan of the flu shot and medication if it can be helped, so I’m always on the lookout for natural preventative measures and treatments.
Last year, we found our color-coded hankies worked REALLY well. So well, that I’ll be making myself a set this year! With segregated cups, quarantined hankies, nutritious food (yes, that post is coming) and great hand washing technique I think we’ll be armed and ready!
So here’s a repost of what I did last winter.
Some kids are worse than others in this department. Middle son would fall in the ‘worse’ end. He not only has used us for a tissue, but also my sofa’s, walls, carpet, etc… (No hands involved. Purely nose to surface contact for a big long swipe.)
YUK.
Add to that the fact that when one child gets sick, it usually ends up making the rounds…
That is where my obsession with color coding has come in handy!
Enter the color-coded flannel hanky’s!
I took the boys to the fabric store and let them pick out fabrics and then cut out 12×12 squares and hemmed them. It was easy and now the boys know that their slime only goes in their specific hanky.
And Keegan loves the hanky’s so much he now only swipes the sofa every once in a blue moon…
For the rest of our ‘germ prevention’ unit, check this out.
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We’re just getting over our first round of colds from this season and I am praying that we don’t get hit as hard as we did last year. October 2009 was rough, we were sick for most of it!
I am boosting the garlic and Vitamin C intake right now. My biggest problem is that all of my kids seem to have their hands or fingers in their mouths a LOT. Ick. Even with “hanitizer” as my 4 year old calls hand sanitizer, those germs creep in.
I look forward to your upcoming food post!
Stay well!
Flu bug here too! We must live close? 🙂
Great hankies.