Though most children are able to take all the necessary nutrients in via normal eating, there are circumstances when this is simply not enough. During acute conditions, such as acute respiratory infections, fever, acute gastrointestinal infections, and surgery, the metabolic needs of the body increases (e.g. each 1°C increase in body temperature leads to an about 10% increase in daily energy requirements) while the child’s appetite decreases and a negative nutritional balance occurs. In such cases oral nutritional supplementation ensures that the nutritional needs are meet and the recovery is faster. Certain chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), cystic fibrosis themselves lead to altered metabolism and altered nutritional needs that can be met by oral clinical nutrition and thus the condition of patients can be ameliorated.
MediDrink Junior is being designed to meet nutritional needs in children and help their recovery.
