Failure to Gain Weight

🩺When to See a Doctor

• 1Bring the child for evaluation whenever growth charts show a crossing of two or more percentile lines
• 2weight loss
• 3or persistently poor growth over consecutive visits. Urgent review is needed if failure to gain weight is accompanied by chronic vomiting
• 4diarrhea
• 5visible wasting
• 6developmental delay
• 7or signs of dehydration
• 8as these may indicate a more serious underlying illness.