A coma patient can be treated for failure to thrive. Failure to thrive leads to coma or partial coma at times.

Failure to Thrive

In the absence of treatment the isolation period is 3- 6 weeks NOT months.In the presence of treatment it is only 5 days from initiation of treatment.The major problem is its communacability and it leads to failure to thrive.

Organic failure to thrive (OFTT) implies that the organs involved with digestion and absorption of food are malformed or incomplete so the baby cannot digest its food. Non-organic failure to thrive (NOFTT) is the most common cause of FTT

Failure to thrive means that one or a group of people or things cannot live. This term is often applied to species in nature who are going extinct due to changing conditions.