failure to thrive

Information, Symptoms, Treatments and Resources

What is failure to thrive?

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.

Alternative Names:

Growth failure; FTT

Posts on failure to thrive (475)

I'm a 46 year old male. Eight years ago the upper part of my liver exploded after a night ...
We are having so much trouble figuring out what's going on with our child, we are hoping th...
My 4 year old son has been diagnosed with these as well as having mild CP and failure to th...
4.5 year old daughter won’t to eat. She sits at the table & stares at her food. We have t...
hi my 10 month old daughter has a feeding tube and is on a high calorie milk formula called...
I have an 18 month old who’s weight gain began to slow down at about 4 to 6 months of age...
I have a baby who is about to be 13 months in a few days. We just had a doctors appointment...
My daughter is 15 months and has been very sick. When she was born she had bad reactions t...
Doctor, My now 15 month old daughter has patchy hair loss, I'm not sure how to classify the...
My son was born 5.5 pounds, full term, IUGR, failed APGAR and was in NICU for a short time....

Members (2)