Life course
UNICEF/NYHQ2007-1415/Khemka
People have unique nutritional requirements at different stages in their life course
People have unique nutritional requirements at different stages of the life course, from conception to infancy, through childhood and adolescence, during adulthood, and into old age.
Pregnancy and the postpartum are unique stages of life bringing about particular nutritional needs.
Infants
- Breastfeeding – continued breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding – early initiation
- Breastfeeding – exclusive breastfeeding
- Complementary feeding
- Cord clamping for the prevention of iron deficiency anaemia in infants: optimal timing
- Feeding of low-birth-weight infants
- Infant feeding for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality and improve growth in low-birth-weight infants
- Multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by children 6–23 months of age
- Vitamin A supplementation in infants 1–5 months of age
- Vitamin A supplementation in infants and children 6–59 months of age
- Vitamin A supplementation in neonates
- Vitamin D supplementation in infants
- Vitamin E supplementation for the prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants
Children
- Complementary feeding
- Food supplementation for children with moderate acute malnutrition
- Intermittent iron supplementation in preschool and school-age children
- Iron supplementation for children in malaria-endemic regions
- Micronutrient supplementation in children with severe acute malnutrition
- Multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by children 6–23 months of age
- Nutritional care for HIV-infected children
- Supplementary feeding in community settings for promoting child growth
- Treatment of dehydration in children with severe acute malnutrition
- Treatment of hypoglycaemia in severely malnourished children
- Treatment of hypothermia in severely malnourished children
- Treatment of severe acute malnutrition in HIV-infected children
- Vitamin A supplementation for children with respiratory infections
- Vitamin A supplementation in infants and children 6–59 months of age
- Vitamin D supplementation for children with respiratory infections
- Zinc supplementation for children with respiratory infections
- Zinc supplementation in the management of diarrhoea
Adolescents
Reproductive age
- Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation for menstruating women
- Nutrition counselling for adolescents and adults with HIV/AIDS
- Nutritional care for adults with active tuberculosis
- Periconceptional supplementation with folate with or without multivitamins to prevent neural tube defects
- Vitamin A supplementation for HIV-infected adults
Pregnancy
- Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Energy and protein supplementation during pregnancy
- Insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria and anaemia in pregnant women
- Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation in non-anaemic pregnant women
- Iodine supplementation during pregnancy
- Marine oil supplementation during pregnancy
- Micronutrient supplementation for HIV-infected women during pregnancy
- Multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by pregnant women
- Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy
- Periconceptional supplementation with folate with or without multivitamins to prevent neural tube defects
- Vitamin A supplementation for HIV-infected women during pregnancy
- Vitamin A supplementation in pregnant women
- Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
Postpartum
- Cord clamping for the prevention of iron deficiency anaemia in infants: optimal timing
- Iron or iron/folic acid supplementation to prevent anaemia in postpartum women
- Vitamin A supplementation in postpartum women
