What to do for Growth Failure in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease ?
- Growth failure is a complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in which children do not grow as expected.  - Health care providers use charts to monitor the growth of children with CKD and look for signs of growth failure.  - Researchers have found that many factors cause growth failure in children with CKD.  - Health care providers treat growth failure in children with CKD with      - changes in eating, diet, and nutrition    - medications    - growth hormone therapy    - Encouraging children to develop healthy eating habits can help prevent poor nutrition and promote healthy growing.  - The health care team will work with parents or caretakers to develop a healthy diet tailored to meet the needs of their child.  - When a health care provider diagnoses a child with CKD and the child begins to show signs of growth failure, the health care provider may prescribe daily human growth hormone injections.