Many parents choose to use towels to physically cool their children when they have a fever, and whether to use hot towels to cool or cold towels to cool, depends on the specific circumstances of the child. In the fever body temperature rising to use hot towels: children just started fever, and there is a continuous rise in body temperature, to use a hot towel to wipe the child’s body, focusing on wiping the armpits and back and other places, because this time the central system of body temperature is operating, if wiped with a cold towel, it will make the central body temperature think that the temperature is not enough, will cause the body temperature to rise more quickly. To use cold towels when the fever temperature has dropped: a slow drop in body temperature means that it is improving, the temperature is relatively stable situation, this time the body’s inflammation dissipated almost, the body surface blood vessels are also completely open, you can use cold towels to wipe the child’s body to help dissipate heat, which can accelerate the reduction of fever. To sum up, when using towels to reduce fever in children, must be based on the situation, not blindly use hot and cold towels, once the wrong use, it is easy to the opposite. In addition, if the child’s fever does not subside, you need to seek medical attention in a timely manner to avoid fever-induced convulsions, causing more serious effects.