Antibiotic-related diarrhea describes common, watery bowel movements (diarrhea) that occur in reaction to medications used to treat bacterial infections (antibiotics).
Most usually, antibiotic-associated diarrhea is moderate and clears up shortly once you stop taking the antibiotic. But in some cases, antibiotic-associated diarrhea ends in colitis, an infection of your colon, or a more severe shape of colitis called pseudomembranous colitis. Each...