Question

11. Doctors usually advise to keep strips of wet cotton cloth on forehead to
bring down high fever. Why is it so?

Answer 1

because it helps in cooling down of the temperature of the body...

that's Riya

Answer 2

When a person has fever his body temperature becomes more than the normal body temperature. If we put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person suffering from high fever, the water evaporates taking heat from the body, creating a cooling effect. Thus, moist strips will lower his body temperature.