cool compress
Chilled fabric pad
A cool compress is a cloth or pad soaked in cold water and applied to the body to reduce swelling, ease pain, or lower temperature.
It's a basic home remedy for headaches, fevers, sprains, and minor injuries: She held a cool compress to her forehead.
Distinguished from a cold compress, which typically involves ice.
- coldLow temperature state
- iceWater's solid form
- ice packFrozen pouch for injuries
- cold waterFigurative enthusiasm killer
- clothWoven or knit material
soothing · fever · bring down · swelling · relief · feel better · damp · forehead · headache · chill · wet · towel · soak in · injury · bruise · inflammation · pack · apply
- Fever Careacetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, paracetamol, antipyretic
- home remedieshoney, lemon, ginger, garlic, turmeric
- burn carealoe vera, burn cream, burn gel, cold water, aloe gel
- feverfever, high fever, febrile, low-grade fever, feverish
- RLS treatmentsiron supplements, iron infusion
temperature/thermal application
cool compressheating pad
Electric warmth for aches
hot compress · warm compress · heat pack · hot water bottle · hot towel
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