Newborn babies are at risk of bleeding as a result of vitamin K deficiency. Vitamin K supplements given at birth reduce this risk but it is not clear which preparation should be used. Until the early 1990s, it was standard practice to give vitamin K as a single intramuscular injection at ...
Since February, four babies with no signs of injury or abuse have been sent to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with either brain hemorrhages or bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Robert Sidonio Jr., a hematologist, diagnosed them with vitamin K deficiency bleeding. ...
A friend is concerned about the Vitamin K injection given to babies just after childbirth. She's read that they no longer do it in the states. Why? Does anyone know why it is administered in this country and if there are any known adverse affects? Thanks for your help OP posts: See ...
Vitamin K shots are routinely administered to newborn babies because 1.8 out of every 100,000 babies who do not receive vitamin K injections suffer permanent injury or death due to uncontrolled bleeding in the brain that may be the result of having extremely low levels of vitamin K in their ...
The incidence of vitamin K deficiency bleeding among babies not given vitamin K supplements at birth is likely to be higher than 9 per 100000. This figure was based on the results of a study in babies selected for being at minimal risk of bleeding. Cite...
Recently there has been some disquiet expressed over this use of vitamin K. Four years ago Golding and her colleagues in a case-control study found that there was a greater risk of childhood cancer in infants given intramuscular vitamin K at birth, although this increase was not seen with ora...
In recent years, many countries have reemphasized the need to give all babies extra vitamin K as a public health measure. Often, this was given as a single intramuscular dose at birth, but since 1992, concerns about an epidemiological association between the intramuscular route and later ...
Vitamin K in oral drops and intramuscular injection given at birth to Thai infants were compared to determine whether these routes and doses would influence prothrombin complex activity, mortality or morbidity at 0.5, 1 and 2 months of age. The infants were 321 normal fullterm babies born at ...
Works with vitamins B6 and B12 to control blood levels of homocysteine, which is associated with heart disease. Folic acid has also shown to be beneficial in preventing serious birth defects in new-born babies, such as neural tube disorders. The American Academy of Pediatrics and US Public Heal...
Vitamin K2 is an essential vitamin that most people do not hear about until they have their first child and the nurse administers a vitamin K injection. Sadly, this essential nutrient is often overlooked, and it is important at all life stages – not just for newborn babies or pregnant mom...