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[quote=Anonymous]We used periactin for DD for about a year starting around 20 months.  Background:  I am 5 feet 8.5 inches; and her dad is about 6 feet 3 inches.  DD was born at the 50% and dropped percentiles -- at 15 months she was in the negative percentile for weight and less than 3% for height.  She had fairly severe reflux (which we were treating) and was later diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy.  She was diagnosed FTT from close to birth (because her rate of growth was always slower than it should have been).  around 18 months we say both a GI specialist and an endo at children's.  The GI specialist thought her only GI issue was the reflux.  The endo looked at her and thought she looked healthy (and also looked at some family growth chart info that I had that showed some familial history of constitutational growth delay (basically a child with CGD will grow slower than peers in certain periods of typically rapid growth -- 15 months to 3 years and a delayed puberty; and have a younger bone age than chronological age).  We were told to watch her.  Ped was still nervous so we did the periacton.  She definitely gained weight on the periacton and it bought some peace of mind. At age 8 she is 50% for both weight and height -- catching up was a slow process, but she just has a different growth curve.  Good luck.  [/quote]

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