Caffeine Consumption in Children: Innocuous or Deleterious? A Systematic Review

Yeyetzi C. Torres-Ugalde, Angélica Romero-Palencia, Alma D. Román-Gutiérrez, Deyanira Ojeda-Ramírez and Rebeca M. E. Guzmán-Saldaña
Additional contact information
Yeyetzi C. Torres-Ugalde: Academic Area of Nutrition, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42086, Mexico
Angélica Romero-Palencia: Academic Area of Psychology, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42086, Mexico
Alma D. Román-Gutiérrez: Academic Area of Chemistry, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mineral de la Reforma 42184, Mexico
Deyanira Ojeda-Ramírez: Academic Area of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Tulancingo de Bravo 43600, Mexico
Rebeca M. E. Guzmán-Saldaña: Academic Area of Psychology, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, San Agustín Tlaxiaca 42086, Mexico

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 7, 1-13

Abstract: Caffeine is the most consumed psychostimulant worldwide. Its use among children is controversial. Although it produces an increase in brain activity, it could hamper growth and development in young consumers. Therefore, the aim of this review was to recognize changes produced by caffeine in children under 12 years of age and to identify the relevant alterations and the conditions of their occurrence. A systematic review of the literature was carried out using PRISMA. Initially, 5468 articles were found from the EBSCO, ScienceDirect, PubMed, and Clarivate Analytics databases. In this review, were retained 24 published articles that met the inclusion criteria. The results obtained showed that caffeine consumption hampers children’s growth and development. In contrast, it supports the activation of the central nervous system and brain energy management.

Keywords: psychostimulant; caffeine; children; growth; development; health effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2489/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2489/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:7:p:2489-:d:341839

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().