Children investigated for failure to thrive: where are they now?
Failure to thrive remains a common problem accounting for a large number of referrals to paediatric clinics. Some children with failure to thrive undergo extensive investigations including a sweat test to exclude cystic fibrosis. Selecting a group of children who had a sweat test, we chose to compare weight centile data recorded at initial presentation with data collected at routine school-entry medical several years later. It was encouraging to see that most children improved their weight centile with time, regardless of whether a diagnosis had been reached.
Pearce
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Child Health Department, Bath & West Community NHS Trust.
Finlay
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D002648:Child; D004739:England; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015430:Weight Gain