An observational study in Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital ), sponsored by Assiut University. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 1 Month to 2 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-09-15.
Sponsored by Assiut University · Observational
to research in the different causes of failure to thrive in children including organic and non organic causes
Altered growth velocity in infants has been traditionally described by the term (failure to thrive ) . More recently the preferred terms are faltering growth ,slow weight gain or undernourishment as failure to thrive has been associated with negative connotations of parents failing in their job as careproviders.
The expression 'to falter' means to hesitate. Faltering growth is an observation,without value judgement, of slower than expected rate of growth along an infant's previously defined growth curve.
Faltering growth is a common pediatric problem with many untoward effects . More studies showed that children who failed to thrive in infancy are lighter and shorter at school age with adverse intellectual outcomes (corbett and drewett,2004)(Natale etal., 2014). Weight faltering in the first months of life is particularly associated with these adverse effects.
Infants with faltering growth also have a higher prevalence of feeding problems (Young etal., 2013).Growth failure is more common during infancy than during any other stage of life because programmed growth rates and nutritional needs are high (
infants aged 1month upto 2 years infants with any type of feeding (breast , artificial or weaned)
:Infants attending assiut university children hospital who are stunting(decrease height for age ), wasting(decrease weight for lenght ), and underweight (decreases weight for age ) . When all of theses less than -1 Z scores (normal Z-score from -1 to +1 ) . Also mid arm circumference below than 115 mm
Exclusion criteria:
Children complaining of any of the follolowing:
it is a labarotory test to assess hemoglobin white blood count plate let
Also known as: urine analysis
to recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth
o recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth by measuring weight ,height ,mid arm circumference ,skin fold thickness
Time frame: from october 2017 to september 2018
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