Oh yeah sorry - no you won't need the syntometrine jab but they will still want to know about Vit K.
Read this:
What is vitamin K and why is it important?
Vitamin K plays an important part in making our blood clot. A very small number of newborn babies (about 1 in 10,000) suffers from vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB). This used to be called haemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN). These babies don't have enough vitamin K. This means they may have nose or mouth bleeds, or they may suffer from internal bleeding which can be very serious.
What does research say about vitamin K?
For 30 years, from the 1960s to the 1990s, nearly every newborn baby in the UK and throughout Europe received vitamin K by injection to protect them against VKDB. Then, in the early 1990s, some research was published which stated that there was a link between giving babies vitamin K by injection and childhood leukaemia (a blood cancer). Naturally, there was a great deal of concern that something which was designed to protect babies from one disease might be putting them at risk of another.
More research was carried out in the UK, the United States and in Germany and Sweden, but none of these studies found any link between giving vitamin K by injection and childhood leukaemia. A recent study in Scotland has found that 400 children aged up to 14 years showed no increased risk of leukaemia as a result of having received vitamin K by injection as babies.
How is vitamin K given to babies now?
Since this early research, many hospitals have changed from giving vitamin K by injection to giving it by mouth. When it is given by mouth, babies need more than one dose. These doses are given at different times, depending on where you live.
Hope that helps!!
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