### Human:\nwhat antiboitcs are ok to take for severe cold/flu symptoms if you are currently taking methadone? . my mother-in-law is a nurse for uab er st. vincent's st. clair er and omniflight helicopter. i have been sick for right at about a week now and my mother-in-law got me a z-pak from the hospital to take. before taking it we looked up the drug interactions and if you take z-pak with methadone there is a high risk for an irregular heart rhythm. so we are trying to figure out what antibiotics i can take or even just a list of the ones i can't take. the dr. at clinic is never there or i'd ask him.\n\n### Assistant: hi you should not take antibiotics for a cold/flu they don't work for that kind of thing so you should tell your mother=in=law that she should know better being a nurse. your clinic doctor should tell you the same thing. do what the rest of us do take an aspirin go to bed and sweat it out. good luck