It is not recommended to wipe the body with alcohol when a child has a fever. When using physical cooling for a child, choose warm water to wipe the body, as alcohol wiping is not good for the skin and can easily cause the child’s skin to dry out and affect the medication. If the fever is caused by a bacterial infection, cephalosporin antibiotics are needed for treatment, and if alcohol is used to wipe the body, cephalosporins cannot be used. Because cephalosporins and alcohol can produce a disulfiram-like reaction that can lead to shock in severe cases, it is important to pay attention to the physical cooling of children by using warm water to wipe the forehead, armpits, groin and other parts of the body, and to take antihypertensive medication when the body temperature still does not drop, so as not to cause hyperthermia and convulsions. Fever is a common symptom in childhood, and children should drink more water when they have a fever and keep the air circulating in the room to help dissipate the heat.