Failure to Thrive

Question 1

Failure to thrive is usually divided into two categories:

Answer 1

*organic cause (cardiac
disease)
*nonorganic cause
(parental role insufficiency)

Question 2

is considered as a form of child neglect

Answer 2

nonorganic cause

Question 3

an infant falls below the fifth percentile for weight and height on a standard growth chart

Answer 3

Failure to Thrive

Question 4

what are characteristics that infants demonstrate in this condition?

Answer 4

*lethargy with poor muscle tone
*staring hungrily at people who approach them as if they are starved
*little cuddling or conforming to being held
*lack of resistance to the examiner’s manipulation