Vitamin K deficiency Symptoms
Vitamin K deficiency Symptoms and causes
Vitamin K deficiency is often found in newborns as vitamin k is found a little in mother’s milk and provides almost 20% of a baby’s requirement. Similarly, vitamin K-producing bacteria are not found in infants’ intestines and they are born with less levels of vitamin K in their bodies.
In adults vitamin K deficiency is rarely found. Sometimes it occurs in those people who suffer such diseases as prevent the absorption of fat in the body. It can also occur in the adults who are treated with antibiotics that kill vitamin K-producing bacteria which live in their intestine.
vitamin K deficiency Diagnosis
Prothrombin time test is used to measure vitamin k status in the body. 13 second is considered normal prothrombin time and this time reaches to several minutes in patients with vitamin k deficiency. In this test a sample of blood is taken and placed in a machine known as fibrometer and the time of blood-clot formation is measures. A rare genetic disease known as hemophilia also caused blood coagulation.
vitamin K deficiency Treatment
In infants, vitamin K deficiency is prevented and treated with a phylloquinone (5mg) injection while daily oral doses of 10mg phylloquinone is used for one week to treat adults.
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