Trysten Guillen

ISM- Period 1

Elsevier. "Loving touch critical for premature infants." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 January

2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140106094437.htm>.

 Skin to skin contact between prenatal patients and parents are important to development
and growth of patients both physically and psychologically.
 Studies have shown that parental neglect while the patient is in the hospital has shown
more of a push towards failure to thrive and development of depression in the future.
 Dr. Ruth Feldman, a Professor at Bar-Ilan University, and her colleagues partook in a
decade long study on skin to skin contact and care at the neonatal level.
 73 prenatal patients were put under skin to skin care and 73 prenatal patients were kept in
incubators to test the use of skin to skin care and track their development over the course
of the next ten years.
 This case study led to the development of Kangaroo Care (KC) as it was “shown to be
sensitive to early maternal deprivation in animal research."
 Researchers stumbled across this form of treatment from the lack of incubators to use in
hospital care in Columbia and needing to keep them warm.
 Kangaroo Care has shown to help not only prenatal patients in the long run but the
mothers as they’ve developed a better maternal instinct with their children.
 Patients under Kangaroo Care develop more maturely psychologically and physically at
a faster rate than patients not under Kangaroo Care.
 Dr. John Krystal noted that this positively influenced the development of patient’s
neurological state in the developmental stages of patients.
 Even though medicine has improved researchers have noted that failure to thrive
continues to grow as there’s a lack of maternal attachment to the patient while in the
NICU.

This source was very in depth concerning Kangaroo Care and its impact on Failure to Thrive in
the Neonatal ICU, while also providing medical research to the impact of skin to skin care for
these patients and the positive impacts that thrive in the patients and parents in the long run.
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“Failure to Thrive in Children.” Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix Children's Hospital,

<barrow.phoenixchildrens.org/conditions/90%2CP02297>.

 Failure to Thrive is the slow development of a baby caused by not having enough
nutrition alongside with other minor factors.
 Failure to Thrive can develop if the patient is not retaining enough calories from either
breastmilk or formula when being fed.
 Failure to Thrive can also be a symptom of the patient becoming sick, vomiting, not
willing to eat, having trouble swallowing, or has developmental issues with feeding.
 Certain diseases that the patient has can cause the patient to not be able to retain enough
calories from feedings- causing them to undergo Failure to Thrive- this will cause them to
need to eat more than the normal amount so that they may retain enough calories to
sustain the necessary weight for their age.
 Certain outside factors can cause the patient to undergo FTT if the mother was stressed
during pregnancy due to poverty, or the mother being unable to cope.
 Symptoms of FTT are, loss of weight, low height for age, irritability, tiredness, more
sleepiness than usual, not vocally developed, delayed movement, and in the long run
delayed physical and mental development.
 Failure to Thrive is often diagnosed while the patient is receiving their physical exams,
check-ins on weight progression, whether there was a loss or gain, measurement of
growth on the abdomen, and height changes.
 Neglect or abuse can also cause the patient to undergo Failure to Thrive as food is held
from them, or the caretaker is behind on the feeding schedule.
 Patients with FTT can also undergo issues with thinking, causing them to need special
education while in school, in the future.
 Even though medicine has improved researchers have noted that failure to thrive
continues to grow as there’s a lack of maternal attachment to the patient while in the
NICU.

This source was very in depth concerning Failure to Thrive, how it develops in patients in the
NICU, alongside with developmental factors that play at hand when the patient is at home,
allowing me to further my understanding on the topic and add information to my final
presentation concerning the developmental issues pertaining to Failure to Thrive.
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ISM- Period 1

Lecturio. “Failure to Thrive (FTT) - Pathophysiology and Treatment | Lecturio.” The Lecturio

Online Medical Library, Lecturio, 22 Jan. 2018, < www.lecturio.com/magazine/failure-

to-thrive/>.

 Failure to Thrive has both psychosocial and organic origins in development for prenatal
patients.
 Failure to Thrive is defined by the comparison of the patients’ peers and their growth,
whether the patient is under-weight or under-height.
 The universal measurement for the patient comes from the National Center for Health
Statistics growth.
 The charts used to yield information on concern of Failure to Thrive is not 100% accurate
when trying to identify whether the patient is FTT or not.
 Genetic and medical history of the family can play a factor in the patients’ low growth
weight and height, thus not marking them as Failure to Thrive as their family history
plays a determining factor in how the patient develops.
 About 5-10% of prenatal patients are diagnosed with Failure to Thrive, and of those 90%
of these patients lack the proper nutrients for growth.
 Failure to Thrive is marked in to three different categories, mild, moderate, and severe,
based on how underdeveloped the patient is.
 The most common etiology for Failure to Thrive is inadequate intake of nutrients.
 Social issues such as poverty, economic stress, marital issues, and family problems can
be reciprocated onto the child causing them to become FTT.
 Critical illnesses can also cause the patient to become FTT, such as chronic systemic
infections, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological disorders, and many more.
 Medical history of a patient can help identify whether or not the patient is sustainable to
FTT.

This source was very in depth concerning the development of Failure to Thrive in patients, the
different factors that play at hand, while also going into further depth concerning how Failure to
Thrive is diagnosed in patients.