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...

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....

This 3-month-old girl was evaluated for failure to thrive and jaundice. She was the 2,685-gram product of a full-term, uncomplicated pregnancy, labor, and delivery to a 21-year-old gravida 2 para 2 (G2P2) woman. Shortly after birth, it became clear the child had signifi cant failure to thrive and jaundice despite multiple manipulations of formula. She had an extensive evaluation after being fou...

A 4-month-old male was referred to the Dept of Paediatric Surgery at the authors9 institution, for the investigation of respiratory distress, failure to thrive and complete situs viscerum inversus since birth. A chest radiograph obtained a few hours after birth showed situs viscerum inversus, left apical atelectasis, hyperinflation and hyperlucency of the remaining left lung, and a mild shift o...

We report a case of chronic administration of Epsom salts leading to diarrhoea and severe weight loss in 7 month old girl.

We are reporting an infant who was presented to our institution exhibiting a failure to thrive and hyponatremia. An extensive renal evaluation revealed resistive hyponatremia with normal renal glomerular and tubular function. Patient remained hyponatremic even after fluid restriction, salt loading and Fludrocortisone (Florinef) administration. Water deprivation and water loading tests were sugg...

BACKGROUND Coeliac disease used to be considered as a disease of European and Western population but now it has emerged as a global problem. Objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency and mode of presentation of coeliac disease in children presenting with failure to thrive. METHODS This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at Paediatrics Department of Madina Teaching Hos...

Failure to thrive (FTT) is a syndrome of growth failure that results in an infant who is behaviorally difficult. The current thinking is that FTT results from a problematic infant-mother interaction, with the infant making a significant contribution to the interactional process. It is possible that the behavioral characteristics of the infant with FTT may be related to underlying physiologic re...