A child who is making little or no steady progress in growth and development. (infant, to him/her, unable to thrive, at birth)
A condition in some children below the third percentile in weight and height (compared to other children of the same age) caused by problems with feeding and/or caregiving.
Slow growth and development of a baby, characterized by failure to gain weight, delayed development, unwillingness to interact, and gastrointestinal problems. Failure to thrive is almost always the result of inadequate nutrition, whether because of neglect or illness.
a condition in which a child loses or fails to gain weight and grows at a slower rate than expected. Failure to thrive may be due to faulty metabolism, illness or malnutrition; HIV positive children often exhibit failure to thrive.
Physical and developmental delay in infants and young children. Can be caused by a physical illness or psychosocial factors such as lack of stimulation or care.
A general term used for insufficient growth (by standard growth charts) or inadequate weight gain caused by a variety of medical and psychosocial conditions.
Describes a baby who grows and gains weight slower than expected.
A general term meaning the child is not growing and gaining weight at the expected rate.
Poor or inadequate weight gain during infancy.
A term which refers to the slow growth and development of a baby, characterised by failure to gain weight, delayed development, unwillingness to interact, and gastrointestinal problems. Failure to thrive is almost always the result of inadequate nutrition.
A condition that occurs when a baby does not grow normally.
Weight loss or gradual but steady deterioration in weight gain as compared with the expected growth, as indicated in a child's growth chart.
Label applied to any child whose growth in height or weight is below the third percentile for children of the same age.
A chronic disorder of infancy and childhood characterized by growth failure, malnutrition and variable degrees of the delay in motor and social development. Possible causes of FTT are varied; illness, oral-motor feeding and swallowing disorders, inadequate food resources and problems with parent-child interaction.
Refers to a child whose physical growth is significantly less than that of peers.
A condition characterized by lag in physical growth and development.
Failure to thrive is a medical term which denotes poor weight gain and physical growth failure over an extended period of time in infancy. Often abbreviated FTT, the term has been in medical use for over a century. As used by pediatricians, it covers poor physical growth of any cause and does not imply abnormal intellectual, social, or emotional development.
