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Vitamin K
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NECSI <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:18:08 -0500
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>One of our Pediatric Docs asked me to ask the
>Lacneters if anyone has heard of or is giving a second dose of Vitamin K to
>Breastfed infants within the first month of life? Can anyone help?

Why would one want to do that? I had always understood that
the full "dose" of vitmain K comes into the body naturally
by about 1 week of age and the only reason newborns are given
shots is because of concern about internal hemmoraging (sp?)
in the first few days of life.
  Am I missing something?
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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