Failure to think about failure to thrive.

摘要

Failure to thrive (FTT) or weight faltering has been regarded as an important problem in infancy' associated with a range of paediatric conditions from coeliac disease2 to sudden infant death syndrome.5 Growth monitoring, perhaps the most common child surveillance activity,4 aims, among other things, to identify faltering growth,5 and generates frequent paediatric referrals.6 However, as Olsen et aV show, the definition of FTT is open to dispute, raising questions about the value of the weight component of growth monitoring and the continued place of weight faltering as a useful marker of disease and impaired infant development.