Recently, the temperature fluctuation is relatively large, many people will choose to wear some shorts to avoid the summer heat, but the temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large, it is easy to catch a cold, and some people will have a fever after a cold, the towel to cool down with a hot or cool it? The following take a look at it!

Towel cooling with hot or cool

Depending on the specific circumstances, the need for symptomatic use of different towel cooling measures:

1, temperature rise: hot towel

Symptoms: temperature 38-40 ℃, with a continuous warming, cold hands and feet, shivering.

Practice: you can increase the clothing, with a hot towel to rub the belly, armpits, leg nests of these large blood vessels distributed in the region to reduce body temperature.

2, fever persists: cold towel

Symptoms: body temperature reaches the temperature of the human body temperature regulating point, shivering stops, limbs warm, body temperature no longer to rise.

Practice: you can reduce clothing, warm baths, wipe the child's body with a cold towel, which can help cool down the fever, but also to avoid the body temperature rises again.

3, body temperature drop period: no towel

This period, the body's temperature set point downward, excess heat will be discharged through sweating, no need to towel cooling, you can drink some warm water, pay attention to warmth, don't catch a cold, but also don't cover too much.

How long does it take for the towel to cool down

Press until the body temperature is normal and the fever goes down.

Towel cooling every compress, time interval of about 5 minutes, found that the temperature rises to immediately replace the towel, especially the beginning of the fever is not very high temperature, in the 38 degrees below the patient, with a wet towel hot compresses after the temperature will continue to rise, more than 38 degrees, need to change to a cold compress to deal with, so as not to continue to rise in temperature, endangering the health of the body.

Fever after a cold is not too much to worry about, so the human body infected with viruses will mobilize their own immunity to body heat to kill the virus, which usually takes three days, moderate fever can improve immune function, which is the body's normal response to the antiviral, but once elevated to more than 37.5, or the emergence of mental instability and other conditions need to be timely to the hospital for treatment.

Towel cooling the right way

1, hot towel

Then the towel with hot water wet, and then wring the towel to the state of non-dripping, the towel placed on the patient's forehead, the other towel repeatedly wipe the patient's limbs, such a process can be taken away from the body of the patient's heat, to achieve the effect of cooling the fever.

2, cold towel

Prepare a basin of cold water or ice water, three towels wet and wrung out, the cold towel on the forehead, wrists, calves on the three parts of the body, can be quickly cooled down, fever.

How long does it take to change the towel

At the beginning, you can change it every five minutes, and you can prolong the time you put it on after the situation improves.

Frequent replacement at the beginning is because, after about five minutes, the towel will be consistent with the body temperature, the temperature and body temperature is almost the same when it can not achieve the effect of cooling, it is necessary to replace a piece of cold towel and then continue to compress, in order to play a role, but the follow-up continued to compress how long and the number of times, according to the actual situation of the fever to determine.