COVER YOUR MOUTH!!! when you cough or sneeze (& teach your kids to do it too!)

[orleans]

sneezing panda, cats, dogs, bird, goat, turtle, monkeys, etc.

[cyberswede]

1. Sleeves!

[marzipanni]

2. As video #2, from "Science Friday" says, sneeze into a tissue (one time use) or your 'elbow'

meaning the crook of your arm, in which you can bury your nose and mouth. Doing this, your hand isn't sprayed with germs; your arm or sleeve might be, but the germs won't be spread to door and shopping cart handles, pens, keypads at banks, stores, etc.*

*Don't rub your eyes, or nose after you've been in a public building,

We taught kids to do this at my son's schools from nursery school and on.


I always hold my breath and leave the immediate area, if possible, after someone sneezes or coughs near me.
Not germophobic, just really helps avoid getting colds or flu!!!

[pipi_k]

3. I always do the

"vampire" sneeze...i.e. into my elbow.

Did you know that you can actually stop a sneeze by pinching your upper lip (thumb inside, forefinger on the outside) until the urge to sneeze passes...

I only do that when sneezing (making noise) would be inappropriate and when I have a mouth full of food, which is something that happens a LOT. That right there makes elbow sneezing pretty messy.


Open air coughers and sneezers are rude and disgusting.

[orleans]

4. i actually told this old guy at the grocery store to cover his mouth when he coughed

he was probably five or ten years older than me -- old enuf to know better!

and he coughed in my direction several times. on the third time i'd had enough! what a fucking jerk! but i figured hey, if you can be an asshole then i can be a bitch. besides, since we're on such an intimate basis now--since i am now a harbor for your diseased germs--maybe you should get to know me a little better! (lol!)

i love the term "vampire" sneeze/cough. i try explaining the proper way to cough/sneeze to kids and five minutes later they are sneezing and coughing right at me again. ugh! "in one ear and out the other"

[marzipanni]

5. A long time ago my aunt told me a similar sneeze stopper-

Hold the long side your index finger across the area above the upper lip at the angle where your nose starts, and press. (You don't have to put your thumb in your mouth. Try it next time - see if it works for you!)

[Xipe Totec]

6. Teach Your Children Well