When failure to thrive has a connection to problems at home, your doctor may consult social services. Hospital care, including the use of feeding tubes , can provide extra nourishment in severe cases.

The first known appearance of “failure to thrive” was in the 1933 edition of a medical textbook, “The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.” ...

Failure to thrive, at least, had a clinical ring to it, if only because clinicians were writing about it as early as 1915. Medical papers have linked it to all kinds of issues in infants, ...