Is it a cool towel or a hot towel?
Cool towels should be used for physical cooling because only cold towels can take the heat away.
Fever itself is not a disease, but a symptom. In fact, it is one of the mechanisms of resistance to infection in vivo. Fever may even have its uses: shorten the duration of the disease, increase the effect of antibiotics, and make the infection less infectious. These abilities should be able to counteract the discomfort experienced during the fever.
In addition to drug treatment, the simplest, effective and safe method of hypothermia is the physical cooling method of 25%-50% alcohol bath. For patients with alcohol scrub skin, not only can stimulate the skin vasodilation in patients with high fever, increase the cooling capacity of the skin; also because of its volatility, can absorb and take a lot of heat, lower body temperature, symptoms. The specific method is: the gauze or soft small towel dipped in alcohol, wet, wring to half dry, gently wipe the patient's neck, chest, armpit, limbs, hands and feet heart. Wipe bath alcohol concentration can not be too high, otherwise, a large area of use of high concentration of alcohol can stimulate the skin, absorb a large amount of moisture in the epidermis.
