Ayurvedic Nutritive Powder as a Complementary Food: A Drug Review

In Infants, initially there is a need of only breast milk, or a suitable formula milk, but as they get older, they need to have other sources of nutrition to help with growth and development. In the first year of a child, development takes faster than at any other time in his or her life. In this period children need a lot of energy and nutrients for growth as well as protection from various diseases. Balanced and nutritious diet not only protect the child's health but also reduces the burden of family suffering. Mortality rate associated with respiratory infections, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and other infectious diseases gets augmented if the child is malnourished. A good, nutritious and balanced diet helps to protect and release the family from sickness. If the child is malnourished then mortality risk associated with respiratory infections, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and other infectious diseases also increases. So there is need of a nutritious food in infant age group. The Ayurvedic nutritive powder is rich in carbohydrates, iron, protein and calcium. Hence it can be used as complementary food in infants.