Why does antibiotics such as cephalexin will not work for colds, flu, or other viral infections?

Question

Found an old bottle of cephalexin prescribed to me and decided to research it out of boredom 🤷

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Answer 1

Antibiotics mess up bacteria’s metabolism or ability to form their cell wall. Viruses are not cells and have neither of those things, so, naturally, antibiotics don’t do anything to them.