Why do the doctors advise to put strip of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever?

Why do the doctors advise to put strip of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever?

When strips of wet cloth are put on the forehead of person having fever, the water in the cloth absorbs heat from hot forehead to get vaporise. It helps to decrease the extra heat in the body caused due to high fever consequently helps to reduce body fever.

Does wet towel help Fever?

Can cooling from the outside help? Measures to cool the body from the outside – like wrapping the child’s lower legs in wet towels or putting the child in a lukewarm bath – cool the surface of the body but don’t reduce the fever.

Why do doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a?

Since evaporation will absorb heat from body, that will bring the body temperature to the normal value. Hence doctors advise to “put strips of wet cloth” on the forehead of a person having fever. Still have questions?

What happens when you put water on your forehead?

Heat is abosrbed by water from it’s surroundings for phase change from liquid state to gaseous state. When strips of wet cloth are put on the forehead of person having fever, the water in the cloth absorbs heat from hot forehead to get vaporise.

When to put damp cloth on a child’s forehead?

Yes we can apply damp cloth on a child’s forehead if he has fever with shivering. It helps in lowering down the body’s temperature and gives the child a bit of comfort. But this should not be overdone and should ideally be applied at most twice for 5–10mins during a day.

What can you put on forehead to bring fever down?

This was done in the hope of bringing patients fever down.Just putting a wet cloth on the forehead won’t work although the patient may feel better. You need to give antipyretic like paracetamol ( crocin) or ibuprofen to reset the body temperature thermostat in the brain to normal.

Since evaporation will absorb heat from body, that will bring the body temperature to the normal value. Hence doctors advise to “put strips of wet cloth” on the forehead of a person having fever. Still have questions?

Heat is abosrbed by water from it’s surroundings for phase change from liquid state to gaseous state. When strips of wet cloth are put on the forehead of person having fever, the water in the cloth absorbs heat from hot forehead to get vaporise.

This was done in the hope of bringing patients fever down.Just putting a wet cloth on the forehead won’t work although the patient may feel better. You need to give antipyretic like paracetamol ( crocin) or ibuprofen to reset the body temperature thermostat in the brain to normal.

Yes we can apply damp cloth on a child’s forehead if he has fever with shivering. It helps in lowering down the body’s temperature and gives the child a bit of comfort. But this should not be overdone and should ideally be applied at most twice for 5–10mins during a day.