Hello all: I hope someone here has experience of this sort of thing. My son isn't growing or gaining weight; we can't go private; I suppose I'd like to hear from others whose children were the same and how their children's health was affected in the long term.
My son is 9. Height is 28th centile; weight only 3rd centile. He has his dad's long & skinny body type, but his dad is 6'3" and was a tall child.
He began life as a gigantic baby on the 99th centile for both weight and height; he had slipped to 50th by the start of school, and has recently slipped again to where he is now.
He is impossible to fatten up. He has a good diet: unprocessed meat; eggs; carbs; vegetables; fruit, dairy, etc etc. Barely any junk food or sugar. For the last month I've given him daily protein milkshakes and omelettes; he put on a kilo over Easter, but when I weighed him today I found he'd lost it again.
Our medical insurance won't cover developmental issues. I went private for as much as we could afford: we got as far as a bone-age scan that showed his bone age is a year behind, but we can't afford four figures (!) for blood testing.
I hate bothering the NHS with anything that isn't life-or-death; I feel this is probably too trivial for them, and am assuming he will go untreated. I will try them, of course, but while I wait to see a GP, I'd love to hear from anyone with experience of something similar.