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Good evening ladies and germs…..

With apologies to the late Milton Berle.

Those of you who are my facebook friends know that my dear husband has been in the hospital since Tuesday morning and I have NO idea when he is getting out. One of the things that it has done (besides worry me sick) is make me VERY aware of the diseases that one can contract by visiting a hospital, school or any place where there are a LOT of people. Hospitals understand this, and place sanitizers on the door of every room. Grocery stores, Wal-Mart, Target and those types of stores provide wipes for the shopping carriage. At home I always keep Lysol Disinfecting Wipes in the bathrooms at the Mansion, for easy clean-up (and to cut down on heavy cleaning time for the maid) and disinfect counters, garbage cans, etc. with Lysol Spray.

But what about you child’s school? How many of his/her classmates are going in with a runny nose (and you know what kids do to a runny nose), those that are just coming down with something and don’t know it yet (but still might be contagious), etc? Even in the finest prep schools in the country kids go to school sick. The start of school usually coincides with the beginning of flu season and we’re still faced with the H1N1 virus here in the US as well as MRSA.

We give our kids healthy food, make sure they get plenty of exercise and try to keep them as healthy as we can on the INSIDE. We can also help to cut down on a lot of the germs they may be contacting with a product that’s been a family standard for generations. LYSOL!

The Lysol brand has teamed up with Dr. Laura Jana, a pediatrician, mother of three school aged-children and owner of an educational daycare center. She would like to share her back to school checklist with moms to help them prepare their children for a healthy and happy school year. Her tips include:

* The Health administration is predicting a very serious cold and flu season, so teach your children about healthy hygiene habits before they go back to school and get exposed to classroom germs, like MRSA or H1N1 virus. Check out the new educational Web Site for kids, developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at www.oopkids.com. This kid-friendly Web site is designed to educate children about healthy hygiene habits and safety routines.

  • This Web site is an expansion from an existing health campaign with the CDC – Ounce of Prevention .

* Send school germs packing by encouraging your children to drop their book bags, take off their shoes and leave their coats at the door when they walk in. Send them straight to the sink to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds (long enough to sing Happy Birthday twice!) while you spray their bags with Lysol Disinfectant Spray to help kill bacteria they may have picked up from the school bus, the playground or the classroom.

  • Lysol Disinfectant Spray effectively kills 99.9% of bacteria on soft surfaces, including the family couch! (Press release available upon request)
  • For more information, check out the Lysol Back to School Information Center

Additional resources for parents are available at Lysol.com.

* The Germ Information Center provides useful information to help families fully understand the threat posed by germs.
* Resources & Downloads has a variety of downloads including the “Looking After You” series of booklets, which provide practical information and tips for keeping you and your children healthy from pregnancy through childhood.

Now Lysol wants to help your family stay healthy as well.

GIVEAWAY

Lysol is offering 2 of Champagne Living’s readers the chance to win a 12.5 oz Lysol Disinfectant Spray and two 40 ct. canisters of Lysol Disinfecting Wipes – one for home and one to send to the classroom!

Rules –

  1. What’s the ONE place that you think harbors the most germs at home or in the classroom.
  2. PLEASE include your e-mail address.
  3. Use the comment’s below to enter.
  4. Enter DAILY for the best odds

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Please make sure you leave your email address when adding a comment or I will not be able to contact you if you win.

* This giveaway is open to US residents, 18 and over and ends on September 12, 2009 11:59 EST.
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* Good Luck

Thank you to the Lysol Brand for providing me with a can of Lysol Disinfectant Spray and a canister of Lysol Brand 4in1 Disinfecting Wipes. You couldn’t have known how timely this would be.

Comments

  6. At home – door knobs or the kitchen sink.

    At school – desks/computers! yuck – this is even worse when kids switch classrooms during the day (and share desks)

  7. I think computer keyboards – at home and at school – harbor a lot of germs!
    Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
    hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

  15. Doorknobs, don't even get me started thinking about it. I'm this close to becoming Howard Hughes.

  17. You'd think it would be the toilet but I've heard it's the kitchen sink! I have a personal issue with door knobs and handles, expecially handles in public restrooms where you have to pull on them to get out. I like doors where you can push them open.

  19. I think the kitchen harbors the most germs with all the food products and touching the handles of the fridge and faucet.

  20. I think at school, pens and pencils have the most germs because they get passed around and borrowed all the time

  28. I'd say door knobs and the bathroom (especially when people don't wash their hands)

    elkaye[at]gmail[dot]com

  39. I think at home it would have to be the fridge door handle and the keyboard. Yikes

    barter.babe at yahoo dot com

  53. I think the classroom harbors more germs at least to the point that my child is not used to these germs and get sicks.

  59. What's the ONE place that you think harbors the most germs at home or in the classroom.

    well of course the doorknobs because most kids do not was their hands correctly if they wash them at all!!!

    davisc9333 at yahoo dot com

  71. Wow…where to start with the "best place" for these handy dandy items? I usually start with doorknobs at home AND at work. Yep…everyone knows I'm "the wiper"! email: mtroxell4@aol.com

  74. The Toilet in the bathroom can send germs flying everywhere. Just remember to keep your toothbrush elsewhere if you don't want those toilet water germs to get on it …Yucky

  77. Being that my student population is special education, I would have to say the tops of their desks. They have a difficult time getting their arms up to cover a sneeze. As hard as we try to keep them washing their hands someone always is touching their face and then touching other things in the classroom.

  96. Seems there are germs everywhere, the worst being in the kitchen and bathrooms, not to mention the phones and or cellphones. I agree the drinking fountains have to be overflowing with germs at school and in public places. One thing I don't think any of us think about though is the money that passes through our hands each day! Pretty nasty germs all over it.
    BlessingsRmany4U@aol.com

  105. A very germy place may be the bathroom sink knobs. We turn them on and wash our hands, but then do we turn them off with a washcloth or just use our freshly-washed hands and pick up the same germs we just left on the knobs when we turned the faucet on?

    brwnsugj@hotmail.com

  112. Well, I used to work in a hospital and you absolutly can get germs there. I get mrsa off and on. I can tell you I have seen mrsa first hand..you can come in contact with it anywhere. I would so love to win this as it would help me. I do not work in the hospital field any longer. (chirpy@twlakes.net)

  114. This is something we all handle MONEY. It changes so many hands. It's got to be the germist thing I know of.

  137. I keep Lysol wipes in a small sandwich bag to wipe down the handle on my shopping cart at the grocery store

  141. The kitchen sink, counters and doorknobs are the germiest places most touched at home. Please accept my entry. Thank you.

  142. The remote controls to the tv's and the videogame controllers (xbox, wii, etc) have the most germs!

  149. I use Lysol to keep our bathroom and my daughter's bedroom clean. I'm kind of a germ-o-phobe, so I have Lysol and hand sanitizer on hand (no pun intended) whenever I can.
    dcalcoda3@juno.com

  178. I follow you and also love lysol products. We need all we can get to help against all the germs out there

  179. I'd guess door knobs and faucets in classrooms, places kids touch with mucky fingers without thinking about it.

  181. I'll bet there are a zillion germs on my kitchen sponge!! ~~ but the most germs? Maybe my cutting board!

  185. I spread the word (& link) on my Facebook wall: heather french (The Mom Union)
    dontaskme22(at)yahoo(dot)com

  190. According to the swab test at my school – I was going to Massage Therapy school but there med tech trainees there as well – and they swabbed the school and found the most germs on doorknobs – and the least – on toilet seats.

    amywill5918 at gmail dot com

  191. I teach music lessons so my piano gets the germiest treatment!

    Katie
    showbizkp[at]gmail[dot]com

  195. The kitchen – between the sink and the garbage, there are lots of germs!

    emily(dot)cibelli(at)gmail(dot)com

  202. In our home it's probably the door handle on the refrigerator – everybody, including our puppies, puts their paws on it numerous times every day! 😉

    mcj4tlj(at)comcast(dot)net

  203. Ugh…I think the worst place today was my kitchen sponge. Bye bye, kitchen sponge! asthenight at gmail dot com

  207. The one place in the classroom that I think harbors the most germs is the top of the desks because they may not all touch the door to get in, but they do all touch their desks.

    sweetmissa at gmail dot com

  210. My kitchen, with the trash and the sink. I disinfect the sink often and the trash can get washed regularly too.

  221. ONE place that I think harbors the most germs is the kitchen sink. I have poulled apart that kitchen sink area because mold was forming in and under the sink cabinet.

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