 [ Symptoms ] what antiboitcs are ok to take for severe coldflu symptoms if you are currently taking methadone  my mother in law is a nurse for uab er st vincent is 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 not take the dr at clinic is never there or i would ask him [ Disease ] hi you should not take antibiotics for a coldflu they do not 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