The results of a new study reveal that a large number of kids and teens in the US are taking vitamins and other supplements that they don’t require, contrarily, many poor kids who need such supplements are not getting them.

According to some experts when someone takes different kinds of diets, one doesn’t need these vitamin or mineral supplements.

The study, which has been published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, also says that many poor children who need such supplements are not getting them. Most of such kids belong to low-income families, have poor nutrition and are not physically active.

These vitamin supplements are not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics to the most of kids over one year of age. However, kids, those suffer from some chronic disease and have other eating disorders or problems, are given such supplements.

The overdose of these supplements can cause some problems in these kids that may cause vomiting and serious problem like liver of kidney damage.

Dr. Ulfat Shaikh, the lead author of the study says: “We don’t know why some parents like to provide over-the-counter vitamin supplements to their kids while others don’t do so.”

In their study, the researchers looked at the data received from 11,000 kids and teens who were aged 2to 17 and part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2004. The researchers found that nearly 37% kids and teens were taking these different vitamin supplements unnecessarily.