Growth Failure Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Urinary Tract Infection

Failure to thrive was the most common symptom with hyponatraemia on presentation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] weight loss or failure to gain weight irritability vomiting poor feeding diarrhea Older children urgency to urinate incontinence during day and/or night frequent urination [childrenshospital.org]

Symptoms may include: In babies: Fever Abdominal pain Abdominal fullness Foul-smelling urine Poor growth Weight loss or failure to gain weight Irritability Vomiting Poor feeding [stanfordchildrens.org]

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Cystitis

failure; hematologic abnormalities with single- or multilineage cytopenias and susceptibility to myelodysplasia syndrome (MDS) and acute myelogeneous leukemia (AML); and [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The common mechanism in congenital cases is a failure of medial growth of the physeal plate 3. [radiopaedia.org]

Kidney Failure: Patients with kidney related problems like kidney failure have a decrease in the urinary output, and retention of urine in the bladder, this leads to the growth [medlife.com]

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Hypertension

failure Endocrinopathies Heat or cold intolerance Endocrinopathies Heart palpitations Cardiovascular disease Headaches Primary hypertension Hematuria Renovascular disease [aafp.org]

Relevant information includes the following: Prematurity Bronchopulmonary dysplasia History of umbilical artery catheterization Failure to thrive History of head or abdominal [web.archive.org]

Cardiovascular disease Diaphoresis (abnormal) Endocrinopathies Dyspnea on exertion Cardiovascular disease Edema Cardiovascular disease Enuresis Renovascular disease, renal scarring Growth [web.archive.org]

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Malnutrition

Symptoms of malnutrition in children Symptoms of malnutrition in children include: Growth failure. [news-medical.net]

Poor nutritional status may cause specific vitamin deficiencies, constipation, tooth decay, osteopenia or osteoporosis, poor growth or delayed growth, and failure to thrive [cerebralpalsyguidance.com]

Malnutrition Under nutrition Growth failure Micronutrient malnutrition Type I nutrient deficiency Physical signs - Anemia ( iron) - Beri beri ( thiamin) - Pellagra (niacin [de.slideshare.net]

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Esophagitis

It presents with failure to thrive, nausea, and vomiting in children and is a common reason for dysphagia and food impaction in adults. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] curves avoidance of food textures Left untreated, esophagitis may cause complications, such as: bleeding chronic respiratory illnesses failure to thrive esophageal strictures [childrenshospital.org]

Dysphagia Chest or upper abdominal pain Food stuck in the esophagus Heartburn that doesn’t respond to medication Regurgitation In children: vomiting, poor weight gain or failure [nm.org]

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Tonsillitis

[…] to thrive, and sometimes even heart problems. [health24.com]

[…] asleep) Frequent awakening from sleep Restless sleep Nightmares Bed wetting Such sleep-related problems can lead to the development of mood changes, excessive sleepiness, failure [health24.com]

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Hypoglycemia

At 3 months of age, she had ichthyosis, growth retardation, and failure to thrive. She had not cytopenia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hepatomegaly, jaundice, cataracts, failure to thrive, sepsis ( E. coli ), diarrhea, vomiting, pseudotumor cerebri, mental retardation and renal Fanconi syndrome. [pedclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu]

They include kidney, liver, or heart failure, infection, low levels of certain hormones (such as cortisol or growth hormone), certain tumors, some types of stomach surgery [jamanetwork.com]

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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

In pediatrics, the presentation is often non-specific, with vomiting, upper and lower respiratory symptoms, irritability, aversion to food, and failure to thrive 2. [radiopaedia.org]

Gastrointestinal bleeding Hematemesis Hematochezia Bilious vomiting Consistently forceful vomiting Onset of vomiting after 6 months of life Failure to thrive Diarrhea Constipation [intechopen.com]

GER disease (GERD) occurs when reflux of the gastric contents causes symptoms that affect the quality of life or pathologic complications, such as failure to thrive, feeding [link.springer.com]

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Growth Failure

Failure in Children With Kidney Disease Growth failure and muscle wasting may occur as early as 1 year of age. [legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Note:Growth failure is also known as failure to thrive. For more information on this subject please click on the following links: • What is growth failure? [nutricia.ie]

Presentation on theme: "Faltering growth(failure to thrive)"— Presentation transcript: 1 Faltering growth(failure to thrive) refers to not only failure of growth(suboptimal [slideplayer.com]

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Acidosis

failure. [niddk.nih.gov]

Failure to thrive, rickets, stunting of growth (seen in children) and osteomalacia or osteopenia (seen in adults) are a result of urinary calcium wastage and a loss of calcium [orpha.net]

[…] these terms), diseases that present with fat and fat soluble vitamin malabsorption, including other liver diseases, and intestinal disease, or diseases that present with growth [orpha.net]

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Bronchial Asthma

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by airway hyperresponsiveness and reversible airflow obstruction. It is caused by a combination of incompletely understood environmental and genetic interactions. Common symptoms include wheezing, coughing and dyspnea, which may vary from mild[…] [symptoma.com]

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Hypothyroidism

If untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can lead to intellectual disability and growth failure—when a baby doesn’t grow as expected. [niddk.nih.gov]

If untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can lead to mental retardation and growth failure. [web.archive.org]

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Liver Cirrhosis

These values are used together with the patient's degree of growth failure to determine a score that can range from 6 to 40. [emedicinehealth.com]

failure ( 2 standard deviations). [emedicine.com]

The PELD score is calculated based on laboratory data and growth parameters. [emedicinehealth.com]

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Congenital Bile Acid Synthesis Defect Type 2

failure (panhypopituitarism) (see these terms). [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

[…] tyrosinemia type 1, biliary atresia, choledochal cyst, cystic fibrosis, Alagille syndrome, galactosemia and hereditary fructose intolerance or diseases that present with growth [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

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Inguinal Hernia

Where there is growth failure. With prematurity. Where there are chronic respiratory problems. In girls with sliding hernias. Infarcted testis or ovary with atrophy. [patient.info]

It is also higher in patients with ongoing increased intra-abdominal pressure, growth failure and malnutrition, prematurity, seizure disorder, or chronic respiratory problems [emedicine.com]

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Mucopolysaccharidosis

Accumulation of DS in connective tissue causes growth failure, resulting in short stature. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Manifestations of abnormal cell function include syndromic intellectual disability, growth failure, and skeletal dysplasia. [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] multiorgan deterioration that includes hepatosplenomegaly, dysostosis multiplex, short stature, coarse facial features, corneal clouding, joint contractures, umbilical hernias, failure [surgicalneurologyint.com]

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Zinc Deficiency

Impairment of calcium entry and the subsequent failure of cell proliferation could explain the growth failure associated with zinc deficiency. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Growth failure and hypogonadism in males, related to a deficiency of zinc, have been recognized in many developing countries. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] toxins, complement, and venoms, (c) poor appetite (particularly in the young and aged), (d) mental lethargy, (e) abnormal neurosensory changes, (f) chronic diarrhea, (g) growth [coldcure.com]

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Hyperthyroidism

Congenital hyperthyroidism can be a cause of failure to thrive, hyperactivity, developmental delay, and craniosynostosis during infancy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

If untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can lead to intellectual disability and growth failure—when a baby doesn’t grow as expected. [niddk.nih.gov]

If untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can lead to mental retardation and growth failure. [web.archive.org]

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Patent Ductus Arteriosus

Large ducts (PDA) Your child may have signs of severe heart failure, such as breathlessness at rest, failure to thrive and multiple respiratory infections. How is PDA? [jpaget.nhs.uk]

Symptoms Failure to thrive, tachypnea, easy fatigability, tachycardia, and cyanosis may occur. [symptoma.com]

With large defects, the patient may have a history of feeding difficulties and poor growth during infancy, described as failure to thrive (FTT). [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction

As a result, many children suffer from malnutrition, failure to thrive, and weight loss. [childrenshospital.org]

[…] to thrive. [orpha.net]

[…] obstructive" symptoms: abdominal pain, distension/fullness, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea and/or intractable constipation, malabsorption of nutrients leading to weight loss and/or failure [orpha.net]

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Coats Plus Syndrome

We describe the phenotype of a patient with severe growth failure where whole exome sequencing (WES) revealed compound heterozygosity for two mutations in the CTC1 gene. [abstracts.eurospe.org]

failure. [research.manchester.ac.uk]

A syndrome of progressive pancytopenia with microcephaly, cerebellar hypoplasia and growth failure. Acta Paediatr Scand. 1988; 77 773-775 12 Kajtár P, Mehés K. [doi.org]

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Diabetes Mellitus Type 1

[…] to thrive and wasting may be the first symptoms noted in an infant or toddler and may precede frank hyperglycemia. [nurseslabs.com]

[…] of small arterioles and capillaries leads to diabetic nephropathy, which is characterized by proteinuria, glomerular hyalinization (Kimmelstiel-Wilson), and chronic renal failure [emedicine.medscape.com]

Insulin deficiency leads to uninhibited gluconeogenesis, causing breakdown of protein and fat; weight loss may be dramatic, although the child’s appetite usually remains good; failure [nurseslabs.com]

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Peptic Esophagitis

[…] to thrive, or difficulty gaining adequate weight. [medicalnewstoday.com]

In children, symptoms can include: trouble feeding or drinking weight loss vomiting failure to thrive Symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis in adults can include: being unable [healthline.com]

[…] appetite nausea and possibly vomiting cough pain in the chest when eating, heartburn mouth sores In children and infants, symptoms include feeding difficulties, and possible failure [medicalnewstoday.com]

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Aortic Valve Stenosis

[…] to thrive. [seattlechildrens.org]

[…] feeling weak or dizzy when active Having palpitations Babies born with severe aortic stenosis may have to work hard to breathe, have poor appetite or trouble feeding and failure [seattlechildrens.org]

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Erythroderma Desquamativum

[…] to thrive, anemia and recurring local and systemic infections. [checkorphan.org]

[…] to thrive. [malacards.org]

From Wikidata Jump to navigation Jump to search disease Erythroderma desquamativum Generalized erythroderma, diarrhea, and failure to thrive Erythroderma desquamativa of Leiner [wikidata.org]

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Valinemia

Symptoms and Signs Among the symptoms of Valinemia are vomiting, hypotonia, growth retardation, failure to thrive, and poor feeding. [dianamossop.com]

Valinemia Symptoms and Signs Among the symptoms of Valinemia are vomiting, hypotonia, growth retardation, failure to thrive, and poor feeding. [naturalcurefor.com]

Diagnosis Among the symptoms of Valinemia are vomiting, hypotonia, growth retardation, failure to thrive, and poor feeding. [healthinformationview.com]

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Glycogen Storage Disease Type 6

Children born with GSD I typically exhibit growth failure, chronic hunger, fatigue, irritability, an enlarged liver, and a swollen abdomen. [liverfoundation.org]

Untreated or inadequately treated patients exhibit muscle weakness and failure to thrive in infancy, whereas older children show poor growth and delayed puberty. [clinicaladvisor.com]

[…] to thrive in infancy Faltering weight in infancy Weight faltering in infancy When there are mutations in the PYGL gene, there is not enough functioning glycogen phosphorylase [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

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Psychomotor Retardation

failure. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract A 28-month-old girl with dysmorphic craniofacial features, microcephaly, hypotonia, psychomotor retardation, failure to thrive and gastrointestinal problems was referred [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

CASE REPORT: We present an 18-month-old boy who presented with psychomotor retardation and failure to thrive. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder

Failure-to-thrive was a significant predictor of both neutrophil and T-lymphocyte-related PID. [medscape.com]

Besides an increased susceptibility to infection, many PIDD are associated with developmental defects, failure to thrive and growth retardation and development of malignancies [symptoma.com]

The eldest of them was small for gestational age, had chronic diarrhea, failure to thrive and died at 2 months of age. [slideshare.net]

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Vomiting

[…] and development can lead to damage to the permanent teeth’s enamel delayed puberty failure to thrive in infants mood changes or feeling annoyed or impatient slowed growth [niddk.nih.gov]

foul-smelling, or fatty stools that float stomach pain vomiting For children with celiac disease, being unable to absorb nutrients when they are so important to normal growth [niddk.nih.gov]

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