Can adults use the children's fever-reducing patch?

Colds and fevers are common diseases. If the fever is not high, you can choose physical cooling methods. Fever patches are a popular method, and are most commonly used by children. But can adults use children’s fever-reducing patches? Of course adults can use it. Cooling patches are a physical way of cooling down. They are usually applied to the forehead, but can also be applied to hot areas such as the armpits, palms, and soles of the feet.

It can be used.

Although various brands of cooling patches are mainly used for cooling infants and young children, cooling patches are a physical cooling method and are external products, equivalent to an ice pack. They can maintain a cooling effect for 6 hours and can be used by adults without any side effects.

Is the fever-reducing patch effective for adults?

The effect is not very good.

The principle of the cooling patch is very simple, which is to use physical heat dissipation to achieve the cooling effect. Theoretically, any cooling patch that can be used on infants and young children can also be used by adults. However, due to the small body size of infants and young children, the content of active ingredients in the cooling patch is small, so the effect may not be obvious when used on adults.

How to use antipyretic patch for adults

Adults can apply the cooling patch to the forehead, neck, temples or other parts that need cooling or cold compress; they can be cut into corresponding sizes according to needs; if you want to speed up the cooling process, you can use several patches and apply them to large blood vessels such as the left and right axillary arteries and the left and right femoral arteries at the same time to help reduce fever.

Can children use adult cooling patches?

Can't.

Adult-specific cooling patches cannot be used on infants and young children. Because adult cooling patches may contain more chemicals or allergens (such as alcohol, hydroxybenzoic acid), children are more likely to have allergies when using them on their bodies. Therefore, it is not recommended to use adult cooling patches on infants and young children.

Note:

Fever patches are marketed for children, but many products are suitable for both children and adults. In addition, because children's skin is delicate, thin and rich in blood vessels, when they have a fever, the effect of cooling patches is better than that of adults.