Why do doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever ?
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Why do doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever ?
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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.
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to slow down the body temperature