Question

Doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high temperature.Justify.

Answer 1

doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the fore head of a person having high temperature because water acts as a coolant and cools down the rising body temperature. this also prevents more sweating which prevents the loss of water and minerals from our body

Answer 2

heat travels from high to low . as wet cloth will be having low temperature the heat in our body goes to the cloth