Failure To Thrive
Definition
Failure to thrive is a description applied to children whose current weight or rate of weight gain is significantly below that of other children of similar age and sex.
Symptoms
Infants or children who fail to thrive have a height, weight, and head circumference that do not match standard growth charts. The person's weight falls lower than 3rd percentile (as outlined in standard growth charts) or 20% below the ideal weight for their height. Growing may have slowed or stopped after a previously established growth curve.
The following are delayed or slow to develop:
* Physical skills such as rolling over, sitting, standing and walking
* Mental and social skills
* Secondary sexual characteristics (delayed in adolescents)
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