Vitamin K for neonates

Vitamin K in neonates: facts and myths.

Effect of Heat Application during Intramuscular Injection of Vitamin K in Pain Prevention in Neonates

Background: Several modalities have been proposed to reduce procedural pain in neonates. This study was conducted to determine whether heat of a non-human source might help with pain management in infants.Methods: In this clinical trial, 40 full-term healthy neonates in their first hours of life were randomly divided into two groups of intervention and control. The control group was put under a...

Does vitamin K prophylaxis prevent bleeding in neonates exposed to enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs in utero?

QUESTION One of my epileptic patients takes carbamazepine. She is 36 weeks pregnant and has asked me whether she should start vitamin K to prevent neonatal bleeding. Does current evidence support this practice? ANSWER Recent evidence does not support the notion that newborns of women treated with enzyme-inducing anticonvulsant drugs are at increased risk of hemorrhagic disease. Antenatal vita...

[Vitamin K].

In this paper, highly sensitive methods for measuring of vitamin K in serum, feces and milk are described. Vitamin K1 and the menaquinone family from the serum, feces and milk were separated by high performance liquid chromatography. The separated K1 and menaquinone families were detected by a fluorescence spectrophotometer after their reduction with sodium borohydride or platinum catalyst colu...

Vitamin K

Vitamin K ................................................................................................................................... 1 1 Dietary sources and intake ..................................................................................................... 1 2 Physiology and metabolism ...............................................................................................