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...
By 1999, the name HDN was changed to Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) to indicate that that this condition is caused solely by Vitamin K deficiency. The new name also reflects the fact that some infants begin bleeding later in infancy—after the four-week newborn period is over (Sheare...
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