Nutritional management of failure to thrive.
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.
Maggioni
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Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, New York, USA.
Lifshitz
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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