Hot water bottles are allowed for dry and hot compress, but pay attention to the water temperature of the hot water bottles. Generally, you can pour hot water with a water temperature of 60-70℃ into a hot water bottle, test it with your arms, wrap it with a towel and put it on the part that needs hot compress, which can not only ensure the slow loss of heat, but also avoid skin burns.
Hot compress with towel or hot water bottle can be divided into dry hot compress and wet hot compress, dry hot compress with hot water bottle and wet hot compress with towel. Dry hot compress is convenient, wet hot compress has strong permeability and anti-inflammatory effect.
There is no definite answer as to which is better, towel hot compress or hot water bottle hot compress. Different situations use different methods, and their advantages and disadvantages are also different. In some simple physical therapy, there is not much difference between them.
In terms of temperature storage time, hot water bottle hot compress is better than towel hot compress, and towel has a short temperature storage time and needs to be replaced many times. As far as the effect of hot compress is concerned, towel hot compress does not store as much heat as hot water bottle, but it contains certain humidity, which can better accelerate metabolism and has no risk of scalding the skin. But if the towel is not wrung dry, it is easy to catch a cold and catch cold.