Background: Failure to thrive (FTT) indicates insufficient weight gain or absence of an appropriate physical growth,it is a sign not disease ,commonly seen by the primary health care physicians. It might be due organic non-organic causes and it usually multifactorial etiology.
 Objective: To detect prevalence failure risk factors in pediatric age group - under 5 year old Al-Batool teaching...

The most common cause of gastric outlet obstruction in neonates and infants is hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Pyloric web as a cause of gastric outlet obstruction is relatively rare in children and presents with non bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and failure to thrive. The onset of symptoms is usually late with nonspecific symptoms like vomiting and failure to thrive that seems to be due to n...

A 9 months old male child presented ,1·ith the complaints of failure to thriYe. F{;(·r;mg had been inadequate because of fatigue on sucking. He deYeloped noisy breathing at 5 months of age and was treated for repeated respiratory tract infections without a specific diagnosis. Physicai examination reYcalccl that his height and weight were helo\\ tne third percentile. He had noticeable i'lterc,,s...