Both hot towels and cool towels can be used when you have a fever, just use them in different ways. Belong to the physical cooling methods, fever has a certain auxiliary effect, if the effect is not good, then you need drugs to reduce fever. 1. Cool towel: fever temperature if the temperature rises to 39 degrees, the need for rapid cooling, the patient can use a cold towel to scrub the patient’s forehead, neck, armpits, limbs and other large blood vessels, to speed up blood circulation, cooling, with the evaporation of water, can take away the body’s excess heat, so as to achieve the purpose of fever reduction. 2. Hot towel: generally use a towel soaked in warm water of about 30 degrees. If the temperature of fever is less than 39 degrees, you can use a hot towel to scrub the patient’s forehead, chest, back, neck, armpits, limbs and other large areas of the skin, to speed up blood circulation, conducive to sweating, so that the human body heat pipe heat dissipation, to achieve the effect of antipyretic. 3. Drugs: For patients whose physical cooling effect is not good, it is recommended to take oral ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin and other fever-reducing treatments as prescribed by the doctor. It is recommended that patients drink more warm water and hydrate during the fever period. If the fever does not go down for a long time, you should go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying the condition and causing adverse consequences.