[What information for children and adolescent with sporting activities, their parents and the supervisors?]

What information for children and adolescent with sporting activities, their parents and the supervisors? The somatic, mental health and social benefits of sporting activities have been clearly demonstrated in children. However, in some conditions, sport may have deleterious effects on height and weight growth, puberty, menstrual cycle, and mineralization, and may cause repeated muscular, tendon or skeletal injuries. These effects are often triggered by intense physical activity during training and competitions, with inadequate nutritional intake, resulting in a lack of compensation for the expenditure of energy. This energy deficit has an impact on the somatotropic and gonadotropic hormone axes. Some sports are more risky than others. There is, therefore, a need, particularly in young people involved in elite-level sports, for appropriate medical, nutritional and psychological follow-up, with the motivation of trainers and family, particular as the use of doping agents can occur even in these populations of young sportspeople.