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Training Module: Poor Growth

Identifying poor growth
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  2. Identifying poor growth - examples
 

Example 2. This child, whose weight-for-age, length-for-age, and weight-for-length are also below the 5th percentile at age 15 months, does present concerns. Her weight-for-age, length-for-age, and weight-for-length have decreased over time.

Now one should be more concerned because the child is more likely to have a nutritional or medical problem. The child is growing poorly. In this case, all 3 growth measures--length-for-age, weight-for-age, and weight-for-length--dropped together. That is not always the case.
 

Figure 3a. Weight-for-age and Length-for-age, birth-36 months chart

Figure 2a. Weight-for-age and Length-for age, birth to 36 months. Weight-for-age and length-for-age have decreased to below the 5th percentile.

  

Figure 3b. Weight-for-length, birth-36 months chart

Figure 2b. Weight-for-length, birth to 36 months. Weight-for-length has decreased to below the 5th percentile.

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