Growth disorder

Introduction: Growth disorder

Description of Growth disorder

Growth disorder (medical condition): Failure to thrive (FTT) refers to a baby or child that is not developing as well as desired. The first question when considering FTT ...more

Growth disorder: See also:

Failure To Thrive:
  »Introduction: Failure To Thrive
  »Symptoms of Failure To Thrive
  »Causes of Failure To Thrive

Growth disorder: Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.
Source: MeSH 2007

Growth disorder: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Growth disorder:

• Growth
• Growth symptoms (2485 causes)
• Growth disease
• Growth disorder
• Growth problem (2485 causes)
• Disorder

Growth disorder as a Disease

Growth disorder: Another name for Failure To Thrive (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Failure To Thrive
  »Symptoms of Failure To Thrive
  »Causes of Failure To Thrive

Growth disorder: Related Diseases

Growth disorder: Growth disorder is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Infant conditions
• Infant health conditions

Causes of Growth disorder

Some of the causes of Growth disorder are included in the list below:

• Feeding problem
  • Inadequate nutrition
  • Poor breast milk quality
  • Inadequate breast milk supply
  • Increased baby activity - as a baby grows, he/she becomes more active, and will burn more calories from crawling and other activities.

See full list of 742 causes of Growth disorder (Failure To Thrive)

Symptoms of Growth disorder (Failure To Thrive)

Some of the symptoms of Growth disorder incude:

• Slow weight gain
• Weight loss
• Slow height gain
• Slow head circumference gain
• Irritability

Read more about symptoms of Growth disorder (Failure To Thrive)

Growth disorder: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Growth disorder:

• undiagnosed cystic fibrosis
• urinary tract infection
• thalassemia
• inborn errors of metabolism
• mastitis
• asthma
• sickle cell anemia
• poor weight gain
• cystic fibrosis
• maternal mastitis

Hierarchical classifications of Growth disorder

The following list attempts to classify Growth disorder into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
  • Pathologic Processes
    • Growth Disorders

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