If your child had failure to thrive why???

Silver Member Joined: Jul 24 2007 Posts: 765

my almost 3 year old has not gained weight in almost a year and her overall growth before that was not the best she is a somewhere between 20 and 21 pounds we keep ruling out diff things we have no answers just trying to think of outher leads I can dissuos with my dr

Have you had a celiac panel done? have you tested for metabolic disorders? have you run allergy testing? What does her cbc show? is she deficient in any vitamins? they can do testing for that.
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Rivka

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Failure to thrive in my child turned out to be allergies.
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My dd has FTT. She is 13 months and weighs 15.5 pounds, she gained 5 ounces in the past 4 months and 2.5 pounds since she was 6 months old.

She has allergies but she is not eating anything that she's allergic to. Her CBC and vitamin/nutrition tests all came back normal. We're waiting for the results of the celiac testing. I am pretty concerned about her also.

Silver Member Joined: Jun 11 2009 Posts: 530

let them do an endoscopy they may find a digestive reason