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

Wet strips absorbs heat from the body and decrease the temperature of the body. this process is called evaporation. Hence to reduce the body temperature doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever.

Answer 2

because wet strips lowers the temperature of the body