Drinking alcohol is generally not recommended for patients with fever because it can aggravate the clinical symptoms of the cold and is not conducive to recovery from the disease. A cold is an acute upper respiratory tract infection that can cause a variety of clinical symptoms such as cough, coughing, nasal congestion, runny nose and sore throat, in addition to fever. When a patient with a cold is accompanied by fever, drinking alcohol will further accelerate the heartbeat and breathing, which is not conducive to recovery from the disease. When a cold patient has a fever, he needs to use compound cold medicine for treatment. Drinking alcohol will further aggravate the burden of liver function and even cause liver function damage, so it is not advisable to drink alcohol when a cold is accompanied by a fever.