IRCT2015112125168N1 IRCT 2016-01-22 Research and Technology Vice-Chancellory of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Effects of Food supplement on Failure to Thrive In this study does not apply Evaluation the effectiveness of a food supplement based on Traditional Persian Medicine to improve children Failure to Thrive 2016-01-05 anticipated 70 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/21085 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment. N/A failure to thrive. Intervention 1: control group: ferrous sulfate drop as 15 drop per day, Zincovit B syrup as 5 milliliter per day in addition to nutritional education. Nutritional education will be given to the mother about feeding and increase the quantity and quality meals, at the beginning of the study in a session. This session lasts about 30 minutes. Intervention 2: Intervention group: ferrous sulfate drop as 15 drop per day, Zincovit B syrup as 5 milliliter per day, nutritional education to mothers and food supplement. Nutritional education will be given to the mothers about feeding and increase the quantity and quality meals at the beginning of the study. The session lasts 30 minutes. The powder form food supplement will be prepared in packages of 1000 grams, given to the mothers with a recipe once every two weeks. 70 grams of this food supplement is served in two meals a day, as porridge. The intervention period lasts for 12 weeks.