Treatment and prevention of vitamin and minerals deficiencies, Vitamin/mineral supplement, Intravenous preparation is indicated as a daily multivitamin maintenance dosage for infants and children aged up to 11 years receiving parenteral nutrition. It is also indicated in other situations where administration by the intravenous route is required. Such situations include surgery, extensive burns, fractures and other trauma, severe infectious diseases and comatose states, which may provoke a "stress" situation with profound alterations in the body's metabolic demands and consequent tissue depletion of nutrients.