title: Nutritional management of failure to thrive.
abstract: Failure to thrive, or failure to grow or gain weight, could have several causes that are reviewed in this article. Infant behaviors are discussed, together with nutritional management, catch-up growth, effects of nutritional rehabilitation on body composition, follow-up, and long-term prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maggioni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lifshitz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000178:diet therapy*; D006128:Growth; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011379:Prognosis