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Declining Vitamin K Shots Bring Back Dangerous Newborn Bleeding
Original: An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn’t Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn’t Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot.
A ProPublica investigation reports on an 11-day-old baby who bled for hours in an emergency room before receiving a vitamin K shot, the routine newborn injection many parents now decline. Doctors say vitamin K deficiency bleeding, once nearly eliminated, is reappearing in hospitals, and that many clinicians no longer recognize or know how to treat the rare, life-threatening condition.
Why now: Rising parental refusal of the standard newborn vitamin K shot is causing a resurgence of a once-eliminated bleeding disorder, prompting concern among doctors and parents.
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- An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn’t Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn’t Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot. · ProPublica
As more parents reject a long-standard shot for babies, hospitals are seeing cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding — once considered virtually eliminated. Doctors don’t always recognize or know how to treat the life-threatening condition.
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