Can children with fever be wiped with alcohol

Parents are not advised to wipe their children with alcohol to cool down a fever, because the child’s skin is thin and tender, and alcohol is easily absorbed into the child’s body through the skin, resulting in symptoms such as alcohol allergy or alcohol poisoning. In addition, fever is likely to oral antibiotics, such as cephalosporins or penicillin antibiotics, if wiped with alcohol is likely to have adverse reactions, so parents must pay attention to never use alcohol to wipe. If parents want to use physical cooling methods to reduce the fever of their children, they can choose to wipe their forehead, palms, feet, armpits, groin and other parts of the body with a warm towel. You can also put a fever patch on your child, bathe your child in warm water or soak his feet in warm water.