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Update: the biopsy they took showed no signs of infection so they believe it’s a flare. He’s been in the hospital this second time for 8 days. They are leaning towards removing the diseased portion of his colon. This is because he is not responding to the medications they’ve been giving him. 4...

If that’s the case, he could’ve caught it during his last stay at the hospital or his recent visits to the hospital. Ugh.

Update: the results of his stool sample detected a clostridium difficile infection. Probably a result of remicade because it weakens the immune system. So hopefully with antibiotics he will get to come home in a couple days.

Thank you all for your support. We called the GI doctor because he had a bad night. Up and down to the bathroom and in pain. She suggested we bring him into children’s so we are here. He’s being admitted, again.

Hi, I just joined. My 8 year old son was recently diagnosed with UC after spending two weeks in the hospital. He’s been out a little over two weeks. Last Tuesday he had his second Remicade infusion. He’s almost done being weaned off the steroids, too. Anyway, he had a good week and a half of...