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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Why is it important to give Vit. K injection to newborn infants?


Answer:
Vitamin K is made mostly from bacteria that live in our gut. In newborn babies, their gastrointestinal system is not colonized yet with bacteria so they don't make Vitamin K in sufficient amounts and can be prone to bleeding events. By injecting Vitamin K into the infants, it bypasses the problem of not having any means of making their own Vitamin K and prevents bleeding events.
because they don't like to eat spinach
They have no way of thickening their blood, or any form of heat exchange mechanism. This does both.
If the mother is healthy and has a healthy diet you shouldn't have to give a baby any shots. The breast milk is all the child needs. That is just the medical world trying to make more money all the way around. They say it is a precaution. That is a load of crap. My children never had anything except mom's milk and they turned out healthy. But then she ate a proper diet and didn't sit on her butt in all of her pregnancies.
It isn't in the vast majority of babies, but we can't easily predict which will have bleeding problems, and it doesn't seem to cause any increased clotting problems, so it's a cheap insurance policy.

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