Failure to ThriVe

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Test:

Screening tests include faeces & U.M/C/8, WCC,TFT, B.urea, S.creatinine, bone age X-rays, chro­mosomal analysis, sweat test

Sign:

Depends on cause, but may include muscular.at-rophy, blue :sclera, bradycardia, cachexia, club­exophthalmos, abnormal faeces, hepatonegialy, bing of fingers, Corrigan's sign, cardiac murmurs,hydrocephalus, hypotonia, hypertonicity, intra­uterine growth retardation, splenomegaly, Mus­cular wasting, Santmyer swallow (puff reflex)

Dd:

Malnutrition, emotional deprivation, malabsorp-tion syndromes, cystic fibrosis, chronic heart fail­ure, endocrine disorders, Turner's syn., Ohrorno­somal disorders, renal insufficiency, chronic in­fection, malignancies

Phys:

hildren who tail to gain weight for no :obvibus reason