Does the adult have a hot towel or a warm towel?
The normal body temperature is about 37 degrees, short time 38 is normal, but the temperature has been higher than 37.5 degrees, and there is upward trend, the need for auxiliary cooling, in addition to undressed heat, but also the need for the forehead in cold wet towel cover cooling treatment, help the patients to alleviate the symptoms of dizziness dizzy head.In the case of high fever, alcohol can be used to scrub the armpits of patients, but also to help patients cool down.
Because the patient body temperature during heating in itself is already very high, if the cover on the forehead deposited in the use of warm wet towel, progress will aggravate the disease, a serious cause of brain edema in patients with head hydrocephalus, nerve damage and other complications.The correct method of heat dissipation is very important, from a medical point of view, the use of cold wet towel to help the head of the heat, when very serious, and even use ice for cooling, so as to obtain the purpose of correcting metabolic disorder of human body.
The cotton towel soaked in water, so that it fully absorb enough moisture, picked up, slightly squeezed excess water, towels in the hands of water droplets do not drip is appropriate. Then fold the towel in half, fold it in a rectangle, 15cm in width, so as to increase the contact area of the covering forehead as much as possible.When the cover the forehead after three or four minutes, put the towel upside down, let the forehead had contact with side heat, another side continue to cover the forehead, about three or four minutes, then change another piece of wet towel to cover the patient's forehead. So repeated, can help the patient's head heat dissipation, is conducive to the remission of the disease.
In patients with fever, do not eat warm food, including beef, fish, mutton, in Chinese medicine theory, the temperature of the food can help the body to resist the cold, accelerate the blood circulation, and in patients with fever during the period, if the cooking temperature of food, will aggravate the disease may.
When encountered fever adults in general, head because of the increase of body temperature and faint swell, and even cause serious neurological disorders or cerebral edema and other complications, in the hospital, there will be equipment and special handling methods, while at home, the need for advanced auxiliary cooling, and then go to the hospital treatment. At home, the main way of cooling for patients is to use a wet towel, wet towel and cold on the patient's forehead is covered by water evaporation, wet towel, take away a part of the body heat, to achieve the purpose of cooling the patients.
