nutritional disorders
Vitamin K Deficiency
Prevention of Vitamin K Deficiency
 1 mg IM for infants who weigh > 1500 g OR 0.3 to 0.5 mg/kg IM for infants who weigh ≤ 1500 g is recommended for all neonates within 6 hours of birth to reduce the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage due to birth trauma and of classic hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (risk of increased bleeding 1 to 7 days after birth) ( Prevention reference ). It is also used prophylactically before surgery. Some clinicians recommend that pregnant women taking antiseizure drugs receivephytonadione10 mg orally once a day for the 1 month or 20 mg orally once a day for the 2 weeks before delivery. The low vitamin K1 content in breast milk can be increased by increasing maternal dietary intake of phylloquinone to 5 mg/day. 