Hot & Cold Pack
An appliance, convenient to administer hot mementation or cold foment.
The delicate area or the injured area fomentation will help to increase the pain threshold and hence decreasing it. It produces a synergistic relationship with analgesic medications. Increased temperature of the wounded tissue increases the blood supply and healing. The effect of hot fomentation is relaxing.
Cold compress aids in elimination of inflammation of injuries which guard it by decreasing the metabolic rate around the tissue, and curbs oedema and bleeding. Cold compress assists in the instant reduction of fever, in severe cases of fever. It may be applied following an acute injury, surgery.






