Society guideline links: Poor weight gain in infants and children

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Pediatric malnutrition" and "Society guideline links: Healthy diet in children and adolescents" and "Society guideline links: Breastfeeding and infant nutrition" and "Society guideline links: Growth hormone deficiency and other growth disorders".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Child growth standards

●WHO: Guideline on essential nutrition actions – Mainstreaming nutrition through the life-course (2019)

●WHO: Guideline for implementing effective actions for improving adolescent nutrition (2018)

●WHO and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): Child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children – A joint statement (2009)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on the 'picky eater' – The toddler or preschooler who does not eat (2012, reaffirmed 2020)

●CPS: Practice point on the toddler who is falling off the growth chart (2012, reaffirmed 2020)

●CPS: Practice point on nutrition for healthy term infants, six to 24 months – An overview (2014, updated 2019)

●CPS: Position statement on promoting optimal monitoring of child growth in Canada – Using the new World Health Organization growth charts (2010, reaffirmed 2018)

●CPS: Practice point on nutrition for healthy term infants, birth to six months – An overview (2013, reaffirmed 2018)

●Dietitians of Canada (DC), CPS, The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), and Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC): Position statement on promoting optimal monitoring of child growth in Canada – Using the new World Health Organization growth charts (2010, reaffirmed 2018)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Growth charts

Europe

●European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN): A discussion paper on the World Health Organization 2006 child growth standards and 2007 growth reference charts (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on faltering growth (2020)

●NICE: Guideline on faltering growth – Recognition and management of faltering growth in children (2017)

Australia-New Zealand

●Royal Children's Hospital (RCH): Clinical practice guidelines on poor growth