Background: Failure to thrive is still a common problem among children, especially in developing countries, and it one of the risk factors for stunting. Factors that contribute failure are medical conditions, nutrition, eating skills, psychosocial characteristics. This study was conducted determine prevalence growth children influence aged 6-24 months who live working area Cisaat Health Center....

Four Asian babies were investigated because they failed to thrive. In all four cases the failure to thrive was a result of the mother's social isolation and inability to communicate, and to the father's refusal to accept that there was a problem in the family.

Metabolisable energy intake, determined by bomb calorimetry of food, vomit, stool and urine, and resting metabolism, assessed by respiratory gas exchange, were studied in 21 infants with congenital heart disease and nine control infants. Weight for age, growth rates, and daily metabolisable energy intake per kg tended to be lower in infants with heart disease than in control infants. Resting ox...

This 7-month-old boy was evaluated for failure to gain weight. He was the 7-lb., 7-oz. product of a full-term pregnancy to a 31-year-old gravida 2 para 2 woman. It was a precipitous vaginal delivery, but there were no perinatal problems. His mother initially nursed him every 3 hours for 20 minutes on each breast. Recently, he had been feeding once during the night. He had three normal bowel mov...

Article history: Received 22 November 2017 Accepted 6 December 2017 Available online 7 December 2017 by CS, provided evidence of a new possible mechanism underlying failure to thrive in this condition (Leoni et al., 2016). In the samepatient cohort the Authors detected low glucose and high cholesterol levels in the blood and described normal/high daily caloric intake in the CS cohort compared t...

Background Non-organic failure to thrive (NFTT) is the most common cause of failure to thrive (FTT) which is attributed to inadequate nutrition due to economic factors or parental neglect. NFTT can lead to a vicious cycle of poor and inadequate eating and severity of anemia. The aim of this study was to determine the hematological indices in children with&nb...

The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In last decade, this has resulted an increase students, staff, researchers. This article presents qualitative research study which social work academic particip...

AIM To identify whether differences exist between failure to thrive children and controls in either demographic characteristics or parental rating of their eating and other behaviour. METHODS As part of an intervention study, 97 children with failure to thrive were identified by population screening and received a standardized assessment by their health visitor at a median age of 15.1 months....