Hello, everybody! Good day! Welcome to Kangdi Medical! Nowadays, referring to fever, the most commonly used physical cooling way is to use cooling gel patch, especially for babies and children. However, many people do not know what is the working principle of cooling gel patch, and do not know how to choose cooling gel patch......
In order to solve all these problems of cooling gel patch, I specially organized today's article, let's look at it together!

1. What is the principle of cooling gel patch?
  Cooling gel patch is usually composed of a backing layer, a gel layer, a polyethylene film covering layer and other parts. The gel layer of cooling gel patch contains hydrophilic polymer hydrogel. Polymer hydrogel is a multi-component system composed of three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network and    water, which can swell in water and keep a large amount of water without dissolving. Cooling gel patch through the evaporation of water in the gel layer, takes away the local heat of the human body, playing a physical cooling and antipyretic effect.
2. How long can cooling gel patch be posted? Can they be used repeatedly?
  Generally, cooling gel patch can continue to use 8 ~ 12 hours and the specification have the details. The cooling principle of cooling gel patch is that heat is absorbed through the      evaporation  of water, so as to achieve the purpose of cooling.  After the evaporation of water, cooling gel patch will no longer have the effect of cooling, so it can not be reused.
3. Can cooling gel patch be used together with antipyretic medicine? Are there any side effects?
  Cooling gel patch is physical cooling, no side effects, so it will not affect the use of antipyretic drugs.
4. How to choose cooling gel patch daily?
   When choosing cooling gel patch, we should be considered from three aspects:
   A. The effect of cooling gel patch.
   B. The viscosity of cooling gel patch. the instruction manual says that it can be used for 8 hours, but it does not stick after three or four hours. Such cooling gel patch should not be used.
   C. Skin irritant, good cooling gel patch should be no irritant, in addition to feeling cold, without any uncomfortable feeling.
5. Why is the baby sometimes reluctant to use cooling gel patch?
  There are two reasons for this situation, one reason is that there is skin irritation for baby, which make the baby feel  uncomfortable;
Another reason is that when the cooling gel patch is just put on, it will feel cold immediately and this makes the baby feel uncomfortable. Therefore, baby’s mother can first put the cooling gel patch on her forehead for a few minutes, and then give the baby.
6. Precautions of using cooling gel patch:
☞ Remedies for using antipyretic stickers can be cut appropriately according to the size of the used parts before use.
☞ Do not use for skin abnormalities, wounds, eczema, dermatitis and eyes.
☞ Discontinue use if skin redness and other abnormal phenomena appear during use.
☞ The antipyretic patch is for external use and should avoid accidental ingestion by children.