Things I Love: VapoRub (and a Giveaway, too)!

It’s Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries, and as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I LOVE Vicks VapoRub!  A couple of weeks ago, when everyone was watching the Super Bowl and oohing and ahhing over those crazy commercials – I was miserable with a cold.  Luckily, I hate football so my cold didn’t detract from my enjoyment of “the big game”.  But what made things extra-miserable was that my little Sophie also had a cold, and hers was the ramped-up, bigger and badder version of mine.  We both had coughs but hers was much more frequent and harder.  It was very sad!

So of course, I slathered us both in Vicks VapoRub.  Because, if nothing else, I love the smell!  But it really does help soothe my cough, and honestly, it’s just soothing to me in general.  VapoRub means relief to me – it’s kind of like how my baby relaxes at the mere sight of his swaddling blanket.  Anyhoo, I had Sophie all VapoRubbed but I was still very nervous that she would not sleep well.  I have a newborn to keep me up at night, and I didn’t want to be up multiple times with a coughing four-year-old as well.  Not to mention, I wanted her to sleep and feel good!

When bedtime came, I put Vicks VapoRub on her chest and my hubby started our Vicks vaporizer and put some Vicks VapoSteam liquid in it.  The combination helped Sophie sleep GREAT.  I was SO relieved.  I did not hear her cough until 6:30 a.m.!  She still had her cough going strong the next day so I applied VapoRub throughout the day to help soothe it.  At night, we repeated the previous night’s VapoRub & vaporizer treatment and again she slept really well.  She was able to go back to school Tuesday.  I credit the VapoRub and the vaporizer for helping her to sleep well and get the rest she needed to recover.

Interestingly enough, on the Vicks VapoRub Facebook page, they offer lots of tips, and one of their favorites (and now mine) is that cold germs can only survive for about 3 hours, so instead of cleaning like a maniac to get rid of germs, you should concentrate more on letting your body get the rest you need to recover.  So, my hunch about rest being the key to Sophie’s recovery just may be right!  You can find more great tips like these and some fun polls, too, at the VapoRub Facebook page here.

We didn’t get many colds in our house in the fall and early winter, but now that it’s alllllmost spring, we’ve really been fighting them!  And let’s face it, colds can strike any time of year.  So you can be cold-ready anytime, I’ve got a little cold-fighting giveaway from Vicks for you.  One lucky winner will receive a cold-care package from Vicks with Vicks NyQuil, DayQuil, and VapoRub!  Everything you need to get cold relief when it hits you!  Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post telling me what your least favorite cold symptom is

2) For an additional entry,”like” Vicks VapoRub’s Facebook page and leave me a separate comment here letting me know you did so.

One winner will be chosen at random on March 1st, 2011.  Winner will be notified by email.  Good luck!

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I am being compensated for my role in the Vicks Blogger Brigade.  All opinions on Vicks VapoRub and other Vicks products are mine alone.