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Failure to Thrive: Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

  • Hospitalization unnecessary unless severe malnutrition or abuse
  • Psychosocial causes require team approach with physician, family, social worker, dieticians
    • Goal of refeeding to allow for catch-up growth at 1.25–1.5 times normal caloric intake for age
      –Monitor for refeeding syndrome with electrolyte imbalances (e.g., phosphorus, potassium, glucose)
  • Structured and scheduled feeding crucial in appropriate feeding atmosphere
  • Consider nasogastric feedings if weight gain by other methods is insufficient within 4–6 weeks
  • Treat organic causes
    –Diet restriction for food allergy, metabolic disease
    –Correct electrolyte disturbances
    –Treat endocrine disease
    –Remove environmental exposures

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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007



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