Allowed Drugs in Children’s Sports: Results of a Survey Among Sports Doctors

Abstract

Relevance. The reception of various vitamin and mineral supplements, dietary supplements and other approved drugs, which enhance physiological capacities of the body, helps to achieve good results in sports.Object of the survey: to study the opinion of sports doctors concerning the usage of approved drugs by young sportsmen.Methods. An anonymous survey of 120 doctors of sports medicine.Results. According to the surveyed doctors, the reception of stimulants is often being started before the age of 10 and thereafter it only escalates. With all this going on it is not feasible to assess follow-up negative effects. Sports doctors do not pay enough attention to that.Conclusion. Sports doctors should control the reception of drugs that enhance physiological capacities of the organism by young sportsmen more strictly.

Keywords

• allowed drugs
• children’s sports
• survey of doctors of sports medicine