What's your germ prevention protocol when your toddler has been sick?

[Dot-to-Dot]

My daughter has a nasty cold.  (Despite ALL of our efforts to be super healthy and prevent such things...errrgh).  Anyway, she is of course coughing and sneezing on everything.  She's having a hard time breathing through her nose and so she's drooling a little but and her nose is drippy (clear snot).  She grabs all kinds of things, like remote controls, a pair of glasses, the cordless phone, etc with wet hands that have been in her mouth or rubbing her little wet nose. 

I am pregnant and I do not want to get sick...but I feel like our house is just covered in germs.  I can't just follow her around with a disinfecting wipe all day long.  I mean, she touches EVERYTHING!  Mine and DH's throats are already feeling a little raw.  We're REALLY like to keep the germs at bay.  Kind of hard when I'm rocking her and comforting her and being sneezed on, but I can try, right?

What's your germ minimizing protocol when someone in the family's been sick?

[Peony]

We wash our hands after wiping noses, etc... but that is about it. It is virtually impossible to keep a young child from spreading germs all the house. Like you said, they touch everything, and sneeze, wipe their noses all over you! DH and I are always catching something from one child or another, they are like a petri dish of germs. You can try boosting your own immune system. It gets even more interesting when there is a new baby to sneeze all over as well. Good luck.