Every year, 20,000 children in the United States get C. diff. Not just elderly patients. Children. Toddlers. Babies. Kids who got sick at home, at daycare, in the community, far from anyone who thought to test for it. Three out of four pediatric C. diff cases start outside the hospital. That means most families spend days, sometimes weeks, being told it is probably just a stomach bug. That their child will be fine. That they are overreacting.

They were not overreacting.

C. diff in children is real. It is serious. And it is survivable when someone is loud enough to demand answers and that someone is you. Pediatric C. diff Awareness Week (November 2-8, 2026) is the Peggy Lillis Foundation’s focused push to make sure no family has to fight alone. This week, we are telling the story of every child who survived C. diff and every parent who fought to make that possible.

When you fundraise for PLF this November, you fund:

Education that reaches parents before a crisis, not during one.
Advocacy that pushes clinicians and policymakers to take pediatric C. diff seriously.
Community that tells every family: you were not imagining it.

The smallest patients deserve the loudest advocates.

Start your fundraiser. Share your page. Be loud!

Every dollar raised goes directly toward PLF’s mission to end the harm caused by C. diff for children and families across the country.

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The smallest patients deserve the loudest advocates.

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