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Childhood Failure To Thrive
By Rodger Bailey of GoToFocus Centers
Childhood Failure To Thrive is a description of less than expected growth in weight and height for infants and children. Medical practitioners compare a child's progress against a growth chart and if a child is too low, they search for the cause. Medical causes could be a problem in the digestive track. This might be a problem swallowing, a blockage in the track itself, or some type of nutrition absorption problem in the intestines. The Failure To Thrive could also be caused by heart or kidney disease, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and other generalized illness. There could also be some psycho-socio-economic problems related to the availability of proper nutrition. Maybe there is no money in the family and there is no food. Maybe the parents do not understand the child's nutritional needs and are not supplying what the child must have for proper development. Maybe the child has emotional problems and is rejecting food. These kinds of problems usually require social workers or community-based solutions to make sure the child receives proper nutrition. But, we are finding that there are a large number of children with Failure To Thrive who are hypersensitive and who are in a constant state of defensive reaction to some stuff in their environment. These children are intolerant of some things which they are eating, breathing, or touching every day and their bodies are responding by shutting down some functions which are not needed for survival today. One of those "non-essential" functions, which is often shut down under these circumstances is the developmental process. We test children with Failure To Thrive and determine to which environmental factors these children are sensitive. After the parents have eliminated those factors from the child's environment, they start developing normally and they get back on track. Two of the more common things to which these children have reacted is the family's laundry detergent or dryer sheets. Imagine if a child has an intolerance reaction to the chemicals in either of these. The residue of these chemicals is touching the skin of the child all day and all night. The child's defensive mechanisms are working all the time to try to protect the child from these chemical attacks. It is really great to see the physical and emotional changes these children go through when their parents have cleaned the child's environment of all those things to which the child is sensitive. |
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That is such an important, fruitful approach to various childhood problems. I know it would have eliminated several chronic troubles I had in childhood, especially if foods are on your list of things to test for and eliminate if they cause problems. The scary thought is that my right side hemi-hypoplasia and some other skeletal deformities, like my short fingers and toes, might have been caused by something environmental like that. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s when a lot of substances that are now illegal were standard in every middle class home. I had a lactose intolerance and was forced to drink milk at every meal with predictable sickness afterward -- to the point that I developed a deep aversion to throwing up no matter how nauseated I got. I'd get punished for throwing up and forced to clean it up immediately no matter how sick I was, which usually made me throw up again. Handling vomit is one of those things that engages the reflex. None of that was even questioned while I was growing up and I wound up multiply disabled. A lot of these substances weren't part of our evolutionary history. The body's got no long term defense against them.
As robertsloan2 points out, in the developed world industrial pollutants may be to blame. In third-world countries, you have those as well as tuberculosis, and woodsmoke. Until I got custody and took over, both my kids had TB and one was severely underweight, and still losing weight. He looked like he came from a refuge camp. I took over, changed the environment, diet, and lifestyle, and both kids are healthy now. The incessant screaming has stopped as have most symptoms of ADHD. (Believe it or not, their mother still thinks she has a right to raise the kids just because she gave birth to them - and a local judge would probably agree. Go figure!)
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