October 4, 2008
Lysol's Fight the Flu Kit Giveaway
I'm taking a guess that you're a mom who does not to want to spend your fall and winter cooped up with sick kids. Maybe we can help.
Lysol is teaming up with Dr. Jim Sears, co-host of the new show, The Doctors, premiering this fall on CBS and author of The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, to equip you with the information and goods to help keep your family healthier.
Lysol.com provides informative articles to help you fight germs in your home, such as:
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Germ "Hot Spots" in the home
Cleaning and Disinfecting for a Healthy Home
As a home school family, we are taking advantage of Lysol's Germ Info Center which provides information, lesson plans, games and activities to help educate families in the fight against disease-causing germs. When it comes to germs, I feel sure your children, like my boys, provide plenty of teachable moments.
The reality is that 22 million school days are lost every year to the common cold alone. A good starting point in teaching healthy habits is with the following tips from Dr. Sears:
Healthy Habits Produce Healthy Kids
The best strategy to prevent the flu is simple: exercise, sufficient sleep and good nutrition. Help your family maintain a healthy diet packed with vitamins and nutrients, including foods that boost the immune system and thus prevent the onset of illness. Some of these foods include: fish, citrus fruits and leafy vegetables.
Wash Hands Often and Properly
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hand washing is the most effective way to stay healthy. Washing hands frequently and properly helps to kill the viruses and bacteria that have collected. Use regular soap and warm water to scrub hands, including the backs, in between fingers and under nails – for 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based gel if soap and water are not available. Remind your kids to sneeze and cough into the crux of their elbow and keep their hands away from their eyes, nose and mouth.
Disinfect to Protect
Kids can touch and retouch more than 300 surfaces in just 30 minutes. Protect and prevent the spread of germs by cleaning commonly touched surfaces and objects with a disinfectant such as Lysol Disinfectant Spray. Regular cleaning and disinfecting will help kill cold- and flu-causing viruses and bacteria before anyone in the family gets sick.
Be Prepared to Fight the Flu
Stock up on items such as tissues, vitamin C, throat lozenges, hand sanitizer and disinfectant spray. Keep them in one handy place to make illness prevention even easier.
Consult Your Doctor
Talk with your doctor before cold and flu season begins to determine whether you or your children are candidates for a flu shot. He or she can also recommend appropriate over-the-counter medicines or alternative remedies.
Visit Lysol.com for additional prevention tips, advice, and products to aid your family's well-being this cold and flu season.
The Giveaway
Enter to win Lysol's Fight the Flu Kit Giveaway packed with things a mom needs to keep her kids (and herself) germ-free this cold and flu season:
* Lysol 4 in 1 Disinfecting Wipes
* Lysol Disinfectant Spray
* Lysol to Go Disinfectant spray
* Lysol Healthy Touch Hand Sanitizer Foam
* Vitamin C
* Digital thermometer
* A copy of the 70-page booklet, Looking After You and Your Baby
* R.B.'s Activity Book - to help kids learn healthy habits
To be entered in the random draw for a chance to win this kit, simply leave a comment on this post by 11:59PM, Monday, October 13, 2008. A winner will be drawn from comments via random.org and announced here Tuesday, October 14.
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75 Comments on Lysol's Fight the Flu Kit Giveaway »
#1 - rachel crisman @ 9:16 am
Hey, this is an intereting giveaway! I would love to win. Thanks!
#2 - Tracy @ 9:24 am
The thought of a winter that's not full of sick little ones sounds great!
#3 - Beverly @ 10:31 am
This is a great giveaway. We are way too busy to be sick and these products will be a great preventive step!
#4 - Sara @ 11:04 am
This Lysol kit looks great! I would love to win it.
#5 - Alicia @ Experiencing Each Moment @ 11:12 am
I need this!
#6 - Carla Pullum @ 1:03 pm
With four people in the house which includes 2 kids we pass the flu back in forth! I really need a kit to help prevent germs passing. Please enter me!
#7 - Ecki @ 2:54 pm
Have kids. Need Lysol. Enter me. Thanks!
#8 - Brandi @ 3:07 pm
Pick Me! Pick Me! This family of 7 could use this great give away!
#9 - Katie @ 10:59 pm
I am adicted to Lysol products! What a great give-away. Perfect for a germ-a-phobe like me:)
#10 - Janet F @ 11:56 pm
Lysol is the best!
Thank you!
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#11 - Rebecca C @ 2:03 am
I would love for a chance to win this
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#12 - Jo @ 11:55 am
I am a nurse, and I bring germs home to my kids everyday. This would help us out a bunch. Thanks:)
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#13 - Marianne @ 12:07 pm
I need this prize so bad! I have 3 kids and we always have illness in this house. We need all the help we can get!!
#14 - Lori @ 3:19 pm
I know all Mom's would love this giveaway. There is nothing better than healthy children!!
#15 - PsychMamma @ 3:34 pm
I can use all the ammunition I can get against my war against germs! Sign me up!
#16 - Kerrie @ 7:54 pm
Lysol wipes and disinfectant spray are staples in our house around flu season…so winning some would be really helpful! =)
#17 - Aimee @ 11:36 pm
Oh could we ever use this at our house!!! My daughter still puts EVERYTHING in her mouth, so I'm constantly disinfecting everything…and dreading the upcoming flu season!!!
#18 - Julie @ A Celebration Of Our Journey @ 7:32 am
There are some great tips on that site!!!
#19 - Patricia Hill @ 9:19 am
Great tips. And since I babysit 5 grandkids, I could really use this kit.
#20 - Kristen@nosmallthing @ 10:20 am
I'd love to win. We all–all six of us–had the flu last year, and I'm not interested in a repeat performance!
#21 - ellen cunningham @ 11:35 am
Lysol makes high quality products. This is a great giveaway. Please count me in. Thanks
#22 - Gloria Walshver @ 12:30 pm
Lysol products are the best for germs.
#23 - Cathy Kent @ 4:41 pm
Both of my kids got their flu shot already and one of them just got the flu, a nasty one too! Great giveaway, thanks.
#24 - Pat Connors @ 5:53 pm
A great idea. Thanks for the safe contest.
#25 - Cori Westphal @ 8:08 pm
I have the most awful cold right now! I could've used this stuff about a week ago. Thanks for the great contest!
#26 - Claudia @ 9:25 am
great giveaway ! Flu Season is comming
thanx bunches!
#27 - Teresa Hoyt @ 1:36 pm
This is so great! With four kids in school, we have germs galore coming home every day! Thanks for the chance to win!
#28 - judy brittle @ 6:32 pm
This would be so wonderful to have. Two of my grandchildren live here and its always good to be prepared. Thank you so much!
#29 - nancy @ 12:31 am
Oh pick me!! When Ty had his last shunt malfunction I came home and went to town. The worst place. The little door handles that he touches.. Bleck Germs… its the NICU mom in me!
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#31 - Kate @ 11:15 am
With 2 toddlers there are plenty of germs at our house! It would be wonderful to have some extra tools to fight them!
#32 - amandasue @ 11:29 am
What a great blog, and super useful giveaway, I hate sick/flu season its the worst!
#33 - Kristan @ 12:23 pm
what a great giveaway!
#34 - Baba @ 1:21 pm
With 4 kids in the house and 4 adults this would be great for us. It's important to keep those germs at bay with the baby's touching everything they see. Would love to win this!
#35 - Stephanie Gurnsey Higgins @ 2:15 pm
How fantastic! This is fantastic information all in one place. Thank you.
#36 - Christina @ 2:54 pm
As a registered daycare home, I am always trying to find better ways to keep my house clean and germ free. This kit would definately help! Thanks! Christina
#37 - Jessica @ 3:12 pm
Since I had my daughter I have become very obsessive about keeping things clean, this would help a lot.
#38 - Nancy J @ 5:38 pm
Thanks for the giveaway The article was excellent with great tips for preventing cold and flu viruses
#39 - sarah @ 7:55 pm
this is a great package. i'm a huge germophobe so i can never have enough of these things.
#40 - Vicky @ 7:55 pm
I love Lysol. I use it everywhere in my house and at work. I have even used it in my car.
#41 - Stacy @ 9:18 pm
I have a new baby during the flu season and I am scared!!
#42 - jennifer bowen @ 9:47 pm
i love to win this i realy could use one thanks
#43 - Donna Kozar @ 11:42 pm
I would really love it.
#44 - Jenna @ 11:54 pm
I'd love the chance to win! Thanks!
#45 - Tamara Bennington @ 12:25 pm
Lysol is the number one product purshased in our household. It keep my family healthy and safe from unwanted germs.
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#46 - Danielle @ 1:28 pm
I could definitely use this in our home. I will also be adding your giveaway to my blog posting later today.
#47 - Pat @ 2:04 pm
This is a wonderful, useful giveaway.
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#48 - Betsy @ 3:06 pm
Great giveaway!
#49 - Karen @ 1:51 am
I am the Gmom of a 2 month old and by the time the snow flies she is going to be 4 and 5 months, etc, so this is our first cold season and this sounds like a wonderful way to start protection from the bugs that survive the cold . Thanks so much for the information even if I don't win.
#50 - Lisa Kent @ 11:35 pm
count me in. Flu season is just around the corner so this would come in handy.
#51 - lorene @ 6:07 pm
great giveaway, I am a teacher of the Deaf and I love your site, great information
#52 - carolyn @ 9:10 pm
I visit a special needs home where my autistic daughter live so this is useful!
#53 - Diana Hill @ 10:06 pm
Lysol is the Best. A must for everything around the house. When are they going to make lysol inserts for a/c's and for air purifiers? I think its a must. So, Did I win yet?
#54 - Michelle L @ 10:53 pm
Love Lysol Products!!!
#55 - Christine M @ 1:31 am
My son has been sick twice in two weeks! It's time for me to restock the lysol products!
#56 - Brenda S. @ 2:31 am
This Lysol kit looks great! I would love to win it. Thanks!
#57 - Betty Shoemaker @ 9:54 am
I love Lysol products, great prizes please enter me
#58 - Stephanie Bruce @ 11:39 am
married to a mechanic and have two kids that find every scrap of dirt that exists, this would be great
#59 - Peggy Gorman @ 1:31 pm
Great giveaway because I am always using Lysol Disinfectant Spray
. I love the stuff. Count me in
#60 - Laura Cutshall @ 5:56 pm
Thank you for the chance to win this!
#61 - Ginny @ 6:01 pm
I sure need this, my oldest is sick right now & already the 2nd time this school year!
#62 - Heather C @ 9:29 pm
This would be great! We have so many neighborhood kids coming in and out, Lysol has become a preferred scent around here.
#63 - Amanda Caruthers @ 10:21 pm
Lysol is my best friend!
Enter me please.
#64 - dani @ 10:41 pm
I would love to win because we have already started using tissues in my house.
#65 - Elina @ 10:57 pm
Great giveaway! God bless and all my prayer with the special needs babies.
#66 - Maves @ 11:16 pm
This is a fantastic giveaway!!!
#67 - Kristen Hendricks @ 1:39 am
This is a great giveaway. Recently I have been trying to do more to prevent the spread of germs especially after I got pretty sick last February. Winning this would really help me to try to prevent the spread of germs. I hope I win. Thanks.
#68 - Samantha Pruitt @ 2:23 am
awesome giveaway!
#69 - Cecilia @ 8:12 am
Who doesn't love Lysol? Please include me.
#70 - Kristie Noguera @ 1:13 pm
A great package to have this time of year!
#71 - Kathy Conley @ 4:14 pm
As a single mother of 3, the flu is especially terrible for us - this would be a fantastic fighter to have on hand!
#72 - kathy pease @ 5:36 pm
PLEASE COUNT ME IN ON THIS AWESOME GIVEAWAY
#73 - tiffany pettey @ 6:51 pm
awesome….love to clean
#74 - Pamela White @ 7:19 pm
Germs can last on surfaces for up to a month. Lysol is a brand I trust.
#75 - Timothy Sternberg @ 9:32 pm
Hey, this is an intereting giveaway!