Problem

Infant growth failure

Other Names:
Nonorganic failure to thrive
Deprivation dwarfism
Nature:

Child's social, emotional, or nutritional environment is disturbed to the point where it interferes with normal growth and development. Some children with emotional deprivation and growth retardation may be secreting abnormally low amounts of pituitary growth hormone causing deprivation dwarfism. When these children are removed from their emotionally disturbing environments, they grow rapidly and release of growth hormone returns to normal.

Broader Problems:
Dwarfism
Subject(s):
Biosciences Growth
Medicine Malformations
Societal Problems Deprivation
Societal Problems Failure
Society Infants
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems
Date of last update
12.09.2019 – 16:17 CEST