This document summarizes growth and development from conception through adulthood. It discusses the stages of growth, factors affecting growth like genetics, hormones, nutrition and environment. It also covers the assessment of physical growth using growth charts, common growth disorders like short stature and failure to thrive, and their management. Key points covered include the stages of prenatal, infancy, childhood and adolescent growth, and how different tissues grow at different rates during development.
2. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
NET INCREASE IN SIZE OR MASS OF TISSUES-GROWTH
MULTIPLICATION OF CELLS AND INCREASE IN INTRACELLULAR
SUBSTANCE
MATURATION OF FUNCTIONS- DEVELOPMENT
MATURATION AND MYELINATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEMS
3. STAGES OF GROWTH
PRE NATAL-CONCEPTION TO BIRTH
INFANCY-BIRTH TO 1 YEAR
CHILDHOOD-2 TO 12 YEARS
ADOLESCENCE- 13-19 YEARS
ADULTHOOD- >19
5. POST NATAL PERIOD
GENETIC FACTORS
IUGR->LBW->MALNUTRITION
HORMONE-GH,THYROXINE ; SEX HORMONES
NUTRITION
INFECTIONS-RTI AND DIARRHOEA
CHEMICAL AGENTS
TRAUMA
6. SOCIAL FACTORS
SES
POVERTY
NATURAL RESOURCES
CLIMATE
EMOTIONAL FACORS
CULTURAL
PARENTAL EDUCATION
7. LAWS OF GROWTH
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IS A CONTINOUS AND
ORDERLY PROCESS
GROWTH PATTERN OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS UNIQUE
DIFFERENT TISSUES GROW AT DIFFERENT RATES
9. ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL GROWTH
WEIGHT
LENGTH/HEIGHT
HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE
CHEST CIRCUMFERENCE
MUAC
10. GROWTH CHARTS
GROWTH MEASUREMENTS RECORDEDIN ACHILD OVER A PERIOD OF
TIMEAND PLOTTED ON A GRAPH
DEVIATION FROM NORMAL PATTERN CAN BE INTERPRETED
RANGES FROM 3RD TO 97TH PERCENTILE
13. DISORDERS OF GROWTH
SHORT STATURE- HEIGHT BELOW 3RD CENTILE FOR THAT AGE AND
GENDER(<-2SD)
<-3 SD PATHOLOGICAL SHORT STATURE
CAUSES: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL
Undernutrition,chronic illness,endocrine causes,sga,genetic
syndromes
14. PHYSIOLOGICAL SHORT STATURE
FAMILIAL VS CONSTITUTIONAL
SHORT SHORT
HEIGHT VELOCITY NORMAL NORMAL
FAMILY H/O SHORT STATURE DELAYED PUBERTY
BONE AGE N LESS THAN CHRONOLO
PUBERTY N DELAYED
FINAL HEIGHT - LOW NORMAL
16. FAILURE TO THRIVE
WEIGHT BELOW 3RD OR 5th centile
Failure to gain weight over a period of time
Change in rate of growth that has crossed two major centiles
CAUSES:Organic-GERD,malabsorption,IBD,pyloric stenosis
:MR,CP
;CKD,RTA
:HYPOTHYROIDISM,DM
:TB,HIV,PARASITIC INFECTIONS
:CHROMOSOMAL ANOMALY,Metabolic diseases
:Lead poisoning,malignancy
17. Management
History,physical examination
CBC ,ESR,URE,STOOL RE,RFT,LFT,ELECTROLYTES
Weight gain in response to adequate calorie feeding
Nutritonal rehabilitation,treatment of diseases
Admission if;SAM,organic causes which require lab investigations,lack
of catch up growth during OP care,suspected child abuse or neglect