Hot towel or cold towel for cold and fever

The cold towel should be used to wet compress the fever, so that through the convection of the body surface can be the body temperature through the cold towel emitted, playing a temporary anti-fever effect. Cold towel wet compress belongs to a kind of physical cooling, if the body temperature is relatively high, the effect of the cold towel wet compress alone is relatively small, but also need to use antipyretic drugs. In addition, timely use of cold and flu medication, such as cold and fever pellets, silver forsythia antitoxin tablets, Tongxuan lung pills, etc., pay attention to drink more water, the body fever will evaporate most of the water in the body easily caused by dehydration, if there is obvious mental weakness, weak performance, it is best to go to the hospital infusion treatment, through the infusion of water and maintain electrolyte balance.