How to cool the fever? Hot towel or cold towel?
Wipe the body: evaporation also cools. Experts recommend using cold tap water to help the skin dissipate too much heat. Although you can wipe (sponge) body, but should particularly strengthen some high temperature parts, such as armpit and groin. After squeezing the sponge out of excess water, wipe one part at a time. Cover the other part with clothing. The temperature of the body will evaporate and help to cool the heat.
Cold compress: if a fever is not tolerated, use a cold compress to help lower your body temperature. Put a wet towel on the forehead, wrists, legs and other parts should be covered with clothes. When the cold compress cloth reaches the body temperature, it should be changed again and again until the heat is returned. Ice can also be wrapped in a cloth bag and placed on the forehead.Hot compress: if the body temperature is not too high, you can use hot packs to reduce the fever. Wipe the patient's forehead and limbs with a hot wet towel, and keep the body cool until the fever is down.However, if the body temperature rises to more than 39 degrees Celsius, do not use hot compress to damp down again. It should be treated with cold compress so as to keep the body temperature from rising.
A high fever is one of the mechanisms of resistance to infection in the body. Our bodies increase their body temperature by mobilizing their defense systems to kill viruses (generally, bacteria die at temperatures above 39), thus shortening the duration of disease and enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics. If you are in a cold beginning (37 - 38.5 C) the use of drugs to reduce fever, make bacteria temporarily into a state of suspended animation, and make them resistant, once a stirring among the dry bones are often more difficult to treat.
If the temperature is not too high, you can use hot compress to reduce the fever. Wipe the patient's forehead and limbs with a hot wet towel, and keep the body cool until the fever is down. However, if the body temperature rises to more than 39 degrees Celsius, do not use hot compress to damp down again. It should be treated with cold compress so as to keep the body temperature from rising.
