Newborn infants routinely receive a vitamin K shot after birth in order to prevent (or slow) a rare problem of bleeding into the brain weeks after birth. Vitamin K promotes blood clotting. The fetus has low levels of vitamin K as well as other factors needed in clotting. The body maintain...
perOregon State University. Because low vitamin K levels increase the risk of excessive bleeding, newborns are given a vitamin K supplement (via injection) at birth to ensure they're equipped with adequate clotting proteins
During the last 20 years routine vitamin K (VK) prophylaxis has been gradually abandoned in the Federal Republic of Germany. One reason for this tendency may be reservations towards all kinds of medication given to the newborn, especially if they are given by injection. In addition, K眉nzer ...
For this reason, calcifediol is an excellent alternative in the event of intestinal fat malabsorption, after bariatric surgery or in other conditions that compromise hydroxylation at the liver level (Bouillon and Quesada Gomez 2023). Although there are many clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy ...
NOTE:High intake of vitamin A during pregnancy isNOTrecommended as it may cause birth defects.Women of child-bearing age should not take more than 8,000IU of vitamin A per dayfor this very reason. Vitamin A is toxic in large dosesand should not be taken. To avoid vitamin A toxicity, ...
The reason for this significant increase is not entirely clear, but the relationship with the immunomodulatory role of vitamin D is presumed to prevent fetal rejection by the mother [7]. Show moreView article INTRODUCTION RONALD L. HORST, ... G. SATYANARAYANA REDDY, in Vitamin D (Second ...
Hansen, K. E. et al. Treatment of vitamin D insufficiency in postmenopausal women: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern. Med. 175, 1612–1621 (2015). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Aloia, J. et al. Vitamin D supplementation in elderly black women does not prevent bone...
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[21]. Afterwards a surveillance study of 2005, published in 2008, in Netherland evidenced that daily dose of 25 μg was not effective in preventing idiopathic late VKDB. For this reason the authors suggested to double the daily dose of vitamin K to 50 μg for all breastfed babies from ...
Cystic fibrosis (CF):CFis a medical condition that runs in families. CF affects thelungs, pancreas, and other organs. Because people with CF are more likely to havepancreaticproblems, they also have problems absorbing vitamin A into the bloodstream. For this reason, there is a higher likelihood...