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lüll Failure to thrive in childhood Nutzenadel WDtsch Arztebl Int 2011[Sep]; 108 (38): 642-9BACKGROUND: Failure to thrive impairs children's weight gain and growth, their defenses against infection, and their psychomotor and intellectual development. METHODS: This paper is a review of pertinent articles that were published from 1995 to October 2010 and contained the terms "failure to thrive", "underweight", "malnutrition", "malabsorption", "maldigestion" and "refeeding syndrome". The articles were retrieved by a search in the PubMed and Cochrane Library databases. RESULTS: In developed countries, failure to thrive is usually due to an underlying disease. The degree of malnutrition is assessed with anthropometric techniques. For each patient, the underlying disease must be identified and the mechanism of failure to thrive understood, so that proper medical and nutritional treatment can be provided. Nutritional treatment involves either giving more food, or else raising the caloric density of the patient's food. Liquid formulas can be given as a supplement to normal meals or as balanced or unbalanced tube feeds; they can be given orally, through a nasogastric tube, or through a gastrostomy tube. Severely malnourished children with poor oral intake should be treated with parenteral nutrition. To avoid refeeding syndrome in severely malnourished children, food intake should be increased slowly at first, and phosphate, magnesium, and potassium supplements should be given. CONCLUSION: The proper treatment of failure to thrive in childhood consists of treatment of the underlying illness, combined with nutritional treatment that addresses the mechanism of the accompanying failure to thrive.|Adolescent[MESH]|Algorithms[MESH]|Child[MESH]|Child, Preschool[MESH]|Dietary Supplements[MESH]|Energy Intake[MESH]|Enteral Nutrition[MESH]|Failure to Thrive/diagnosis/*etiology/therapy[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Infant[MESH]|Parenteral Nutrition, Total[MESH]|Protein-Energy Malnutrition/diagnosis/etiology/psychology[MESH]|Refeeding Syndrome/etiology/prevention & control[MESH] |