To do a warm compress all you need to do is: 1  Take a clean and soft cloth and dip it in hot water. 2  Ensure the water is not too hot but a little more than warm. 3  Rinse the cloth. 4  Hold this warm cloth gently over your childâs sty for about five to ten minutes, depending on how comfortable your child is. 5  Do this a few times a day.
Rule #2: When abbreviating academic degrees and professional designations, use a period between each letter or element in the abbreviation. No internal spaces are necessary.
period (plural periods) 1  A length of time. 2  A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. ( 3 now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark â.â (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).