OBJECTIVE To examine the characteristics of infants suffering from failure to thrive in a community based cohort in Israel and to ascertain the effect of failure to thrive on their cognitive development. METHODS By review of records maintained at maternal and child health clinics in Jerusalem and the two of Beit Shemesh, epidemiological data were obtained at age 15 months on a cohort of all b...

Forty-seven children with non-organic failure to thrive (NOFT) were identified from a whole-population survey of children's growth and development. A significant proportion (N=17) of these 47 children were found to have oral-motor dysfunction (OMD) identified using a previously validated assessment tool. NOFT children with OMD and those with normal oral-motor function (N=30) were compared in or...

What causes it? A child with failure to thrive is not getting enough calories to grow. The most common cause is not eating enough food. Some reasons a child may not be getting enough food include: • Feeding problems, like poor sucking or swallowing • Trouble with breastfeeding • Drinking too much juice, which has a lot of sugar but not enough nutrients needed for proper growth • Trouble switchi...

The Permanente Journal/ Summer 2005/ Volume 9 No. 3 Carol Evans, RNP, MS, MA, has worked for ten years as the geriatric nurse practitioner member of the skilled nursing facility team in the Diablo Service Area in the KP Northern California Region. She also practices on a half-time basis in the Neurology Department at KP Hayward as a Parkinson’s disease specialist. E-mail: [email protected]. ...

Case: A 7-day-old male presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a history of lethargy and poor feeding for 1 day. He had no fever, no vomiting, no diffi culty breathing, and no other complaints. He was born at 37 weeks’ gestation by normal spontaneous vaginal delivery, and his birth weight was 4 kg. The mother was colonized with group B streptococcus infection and received pen...

C A S E A 5-month-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency department after his primary care physician referred him for workup of noted failure to thrive (FTT) and severe global developmental delay (DD) that did not respond to hypercaloric formula and physical therapy. The patient was born at 39 weeks’ gestation to a 26-year-old primigravida mother via spontaneous vaginal delivery. The mot...