
Recurrent Clostridium Difficile (Antibiotic Diarrhea) Modern antibiotics are powerful drugs and often lifesaving, but, as with all medications, side effects may sometimes occur. One side effect of antibiotic therapy is diarrhea. This is often called antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Other names for this condition are antibiotic-associated colitis, pseudomembranous colitis, or Clostridium difficile colitis. This infection is caused by a disruption...