Hi Jo,
I wasn't very clear with that bit - all states use the same product in
Australia and so the preservatives etc are present irrespective of the
route given. The IM route however bypasses the mucosal route which is
one of the body's first line of defence against foreign agents. The IM
rout
except giving a vitamin K injection is not a vacination. It produces
no response in the immune system but causes a physiological response
that is arguably not needed unless the baby and mother are interupted
at birth either necessarily or unnecessarily
Andrea Q
On 24/03/2006, at 4:33 PM, Jo
On 24/03/2006, at 1:11 PM, Sue Cookson wrote:
Same sort of riks/benefits as any vaccination concept - oral vs IM
route with IM bypassing normal modes of K intake which is either
dietary or produced in the gut, IM including preservatives etc
within the product.
Hi Sue
Here in WA the sa
Hi Mary,
Vitamin K does not appear to cross the placenta in major quantities -
some thoughts that low vitamin K levels in baby's blood is to do with
the need for cells to replicate at an enormous rate and that high
levels of K can inhibit that... (don't have the reference off the top
of my head
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Mary Doyle
Verzonden: donderdag 23 maart 2006
12:52
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Onderwerp: [ozmidwifery] Maternal
Vitamin K?
Midwives et al...
Is there any way maternal Vitamin K
can be accumulated prior to birth and therefore passed on to her baby, in
order to
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Maternal Vitamin K?
Most sources
suggest upping green leafy vegetables in the diet as they are sources of Vit K
Mary just off the top of my head a baby's vitamin K levels are reduced at birth as a consequence of poor placental transportation of vitamin K. As nature hasn't got much wrong in the birth process you would assume this is the way it is meant to be and increasing maternal vitamin k would unpredictab
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Mary Doyle
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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:52
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] Maternal Vitamin
K?
Midwives et al...
Is there any way maternal Vitamin K can be
accumulated prior to birth and therefore passed on to her
Midwives et al...
Is there any way maternal Vitamin K can be
accumulated prior to birth and therefore passed on to her baby, in order to
prevent the newborn requiring neonatal Vitamin K???
Thanks in anticipation...
Mary Doyle
Early Parenting Manager
Alpine Health
