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

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

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The *bio* in antibiotics means *life*. Viruses are generally not thought of as *living* things. They’re little tanks of genetic material that get in and around your junk and replicate, a lot, in your cells. So using an antibiotic to try to kill it would be like trying to suffocate a rock by putting it in a vacuum. Not really going to affect it.

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