Your Baby and Vitamin K: Prevent Dangerous Bleeding in Your Newborn with Vitamin K Injection at Birth

Johnson, Elizabeth Ann M
2009-09-18
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Your Baby and Vitamin K: Prevent Dangerous Bleeding in Your Newborn with Vitamin K Injection at Birth

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When babies are born they have low levels of an important vitamin, vitamin k, in their body. This can lead to a form of unexpected, potentially deadly bleeding between birth and 12 weeks of age. Giving a single injection of vitamin K at birth easily prevents dangerous bleeding in your baby. Some people have concerns about the safety of giving vitamin k injections to newborns. This pamphlet describes how vitamin k injection is a safe and effective way to prevent vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) of the newborn.

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Johnson, Elizabeth Ann M. (2009). Your Baby and Vitamin K: Prevent Dangerous Bleeding in Your Newborn with Vitamin K Injection at Birth. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/53679.

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