Dietary supplements are responsible for an estimated 23,000 visits to hopital emergency rooms,and more than 2,100 hospitalizations,in the United States each year,a new study reveals.
Researchers found that more than one-quarter of these emergency visits involved young adults ages 20to34,and about one-fifth of them involved unsupervised children who swallowed adult supplements,according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The visits involved people who had taken herbal,homeeopathic and nutritional supplements,such as amino acids,vitamins and minerals,according to the study.