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Vitamin K

Vitamins are substances that your body needs to grow and develop normally. Vitamin K helps your body by making proteins for healthy bones and tissues. It also makes proteins for blood clotting. If you don't have enough vitamin K, you may bleed too much.

Newborns have very little vitamin K. They usually get a shot of vitamin K soon after they are born.

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  1. Vitamin K (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... your body needs to grow and develop normally. Vitamin K helps your body by making proteins for healthy ... blood clotting. If you don't have enough vitamin K, you may bleed too much. Newborns have very ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/vitamink.html - Health Topics
  2. VKORC1 gene 
    The VKORC1 gene provides instructions for making a vitamin K epoxide reductase enzyme. The VKORC1 enzyme is made ... Specifically, the VKORC1 enzyme converts one form of vitamin K into a different form of vitamin K that ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/vkorc1 - Genetics
  3. Vitamin K 
    Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin. Your body stores vitamin K in the liver and other body tissues, including ... Vitamin K is known as the clotting vitamin. The body needs vitamin K to make certain proteins in ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002407.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding of the newborn 
    Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) of the newborn is a bleeding disorder in babies. It most often develops ... A lack of vitamin K may cause severe bleeding in newborn babies. Vitamin K plays an important role in blood clotting. Babies often have ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007320.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. About Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  
    What you need to know about vitamin K deficiency bleeding
    https://www.cdc.gov/vitamin-k-deficiency/about - External Health Links
  6. Vitamin K source (image) 
    Like most vitamins, vitamin K may be obtained in the recommended amount with a well-balanced diet. Vitamin K is also made in the body by normal ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/18116.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Vitamin K benefit (image) 
    Vitamin K is essential for normal blood clotting.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/18115.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Phytonadione 
    Phytonadione (vitamin K) is used to prevent bleeding in people with blood clotting problems or too little vitamin K in the body. Phytonadione is in a class ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682659.html - Drugs and Supplements
  9. ClinicalTrials.gov: Vitamin K From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Vitamin K/Clinical Trials ... Vitamin K
    https://clinicaltrials.gov/...="Vitamin+K"&aggFilters=status:not rec - External Health Links
  10. Protect Your Baby from Bleeds (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  
    Encouraging parents to have their baby receive the vitamin K shot at birth
    https://www.cdc.gov/vitamin-k-deficiency/fact-sheet - External Health Links
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