Doctors recommend that all newborns get a dose of vitamin K at birth. Babies aren't born with enough of this important vitamin, which is needed for blood to clot normally. Without getting vitamin K at ...

otago.ac.nz Objective To explore the influencing factors and reasoning of parents who opt out of intramuscular vitamin K prophylaxis for their newborn. Design We conducted a qualitative study with 15 ...

Vitamin K activates a protein needed for normal blood clotting, which helps to heal wounds and prevent excessive bleeding. Many newborn babies are given a vitamin K injection, to prevent a rare ...

All newborns are born with very little vitamin K stored in their body. Vitamin K is necessary for the body to form clots and stop bleeding. As many as 1 in 60 newborns that do not receive the ...

Doctors recommend that all newborns get a dose of vitamin K at birth. Babies aren't born with enough of this important vitamin, which is needed for blood to clot normally. Without getting vitamin K at ...

Objectives To assess (a) the relationships between functional vitamin K insufficiency in a large cohort of Thai mothers to that of their newborn infants and (b) the importance of delivery risk factors ...