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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 37, No. 5, 305-309 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289803700505

Characterization of Failure to Imbibe in Infants

David A. Gremse, MD

Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of South Alabama, P.O. Drawer 40130, Mobile, Alabama 36640-0130

J. Mark Lytle, MD

Alan I. Sacks, MD

The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

William F. Balistreri, MD

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

The term failure to imbibe is proposed to describe infants with failure to thrive due to poor feeding. Feeding assessment was performed in 128 patients: 43 healthy controls, 53 diseased controls, 12 with nonorganic failure to thrive, and 20 with failure to imbibe. Infants with failure to imbibe required a significantly longer time to feed compared with other infants. In contrast to other infants with nonorganic failure to thrive, patients with failure to imbibe were more likely to need pediatric subspecialty care and nasogastric or gastrostomy tube feeding. Since these patients may have treatable conditions, infants with failure to imbibe merit further investigation.


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