Whether or not a fever can be smothered by a quilt is related to the stage of the fever. If there are chills and chills, you can cover the quilt, but it is not recommended to smother sweating in the high fever stage. In general, acute fever is divided into three phases: rising temperature phase, high fever phase, and falling temperature phase. If there are symptoms of chills or chills during the rising temperature period, you can cover the quilt appropriately to reduce discomfort, but you should avoid smothering sweating. In the high fever period, there can be symptoms such as facial flushing, burning skin, dry lips and other symptoms, should avoid covering the quilt, in order to prevent excessive sweating or difficult to dissipate the body temperature does not fall. In addition, in the period of fever is difficult to cover the sweat, so there is no need to cover the quilt stifling sweat. It should be noted that fever should be timely physical cooling, such as cold, warm water baths, cooling treatment is ineffective if you should promptly seek medical treatment to prevent the condition from worsening.