To be annoyed with my daughter...

I like cotton hankies and I too have rhinitis and would have used several rainforests over the years had I used tissues. I hate to see germ laden tissues in bins - someone has to move them - yuk! At least with a hankie the bugs are kept contained!

Can you still buy nappy liners? They are disposable (obviously) but much gentler on the nose than tissues.

My DH and DS always use a cotton handkerchief. I have permanent rhinitis and use tissues because a cotton one would get soaked. I find that if I use a tissue with balm it is much kinder to the nose.

You can still buy nappy liners. DD1 used them for my GS. She had washable ones made of a fleecy sort of stuff.

bagitha I always used nappy liners when I had a bad cold when absentdaughter was little, so nappy liners were always in stock. They really are soft on the nose.

Thanks for the tip, absent. I'll try and get some for when we need disposables. Part of me (the green freak bit) doesn't want to use anything disposable if a reusable option is available (and I take the view that anything which isn't killed by a hot wash and an iron deserves to live!) but they would be useful to have when DD has a cold as she tends to leave hankies lying about! Mind you, she has usually given me the cold too by then so it hardly matters. The wonders of viral life, eh?

to return to the salt question, I think the pendulum is swinging the other way as so often happens . If you are a healthy person apparently your body will take what salt it needs and get rid of the rest. My sister , who was very careful to keep her salt intake very low, finished up having fainting fits from salt deficiency!

Hunt,.. In Adults perhaps - but childrens bodies cannot deal with salt as efficiently as adults,.. Plus in adults with high blood pressure, salt is more dangerous.