possible flare, need some quick answers please.

Flares can go away on their own, but often that's after weeks, months or years of pain and bleeding. Not so good for a little guy.

Since children are on and off antibiotics a lot, probiotics may be your and Chris' best friends. They can re-populate the colon with good bacteria killed by the antibiotics and help prevent diarrhea and flaring. You can give them routinely and then increase the dosage when he's on antibiotics. I think most of the parents of young children here use Culturelle, which should be available at your pharmacy.

I'm sorry to hear he's sick and hope he gets through this quickly so he can go tend to his important business of play!

I have to be very, very careful with antibiotics, and I have only ever flared after taking them.  Keflex and amoxicillin always do it.  Cipro did it once.  I also had a bad reaction to Flagyl.  My current flare (one year) was brought on my amoxicilin.

(Probiotics do not seem to guard against this in my case.)

In your son's case, the timing is also right.  A week to ten days after I'm done with antibiotics and it's blood and mucus all over the place.

Personally, I always wait about ten days after symptoms to see if it will go away on its own.  Once or twice it has, more often than not it doesn't.  If it were my two-year-old, I would not wait to seek medical attention, but I might try something else before I tried steroids, perhaps a course of enemas.

There is also some research that suggests a very quick steroid burst may help stop a flare brought on by antibiotics.  You might mention it to your doctor.

it was azithromiacin (sp?) i think, i don't have the bottle any more, but it is a very strong one.

ya'll are lots of good help. i think it would do al the GI's some good to log on once and a while.