Nutritional Supplement Use in Infants and Children

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, nutritional (or dietary) supplements and use of the over-the-counter products for infants and children has significantly increased. Nutrition wise, micronutrient supplementation with products like multivitamins and/or multi-minerals, isolated vitamins or minerals, and their combinations are often used. Moreover, use of macronutrients has become more popular, where the use of omega-3 fatty acids is prominent. One of the main ideas among parents concerning the reasons that they give supplements to their children is to “boost their metabolism”, which is why, additionally to micro- and macronutrients, products like probiotics, essential oils, e.g., echinacea and beta–glucans, are often supplemented. In sick infants and children, the use of different supplements is even more frequent and diverse. Here, oral nutritional supplements (ONSs) which usually contain both macro- and micronutrients are very often used for nutritional support.

In this Special Issue, we would like to present and discuss the use of different supplements (nutritional and non-nutritional) in the healthy and sick paediatric population, aiming to increase the knowledge for justified and targeted use of supplements.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, as well as review articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, but also case reports focusing on the use of any kind of nutritional supplementation and/or use of supplements of any kind in healthy or sick infants and children.

Dr. Tena Niseteo
Dr. Evgen Benedik
Guest Editors

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• infants
• children
• healthy
• sick
• supplementation
• nutritional supplements