All newborn babies in Sweden receive a vitamin K injection shortly after birth, unless the parents are informed and choose to abstain.
This established prophylaxis was developed to save up to 10 children per 100,000 who in the 1960s suffered from a bleeding disease called MHN (Morbus Hemorrhagicum Neonatorum). This bleeding disease is directly life-threatening for newborns, as they lack full coagulation ability, an ability that can be regulated with the addition of vitamin K.
The risk of suffering is thus very small, 0.01%, but despite this, the National Board of Health and Welfare has decided to give all newborn babies vitamin K, to be on the safe side.
The question is whether the benefits have been weighed against the risks and whether there is an important function in newborns slowly naturally forming their own vitamin K, which is sabotaged by the strong supplement?
There are studies that suggest that the vitamin K shot can lead to cancer, something that WHO dismisses. Critics also argue that it is never a harmless act to inject medication into a vulnerable newborn child.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a specialist doctor from the USA, was asked about vitamin K during a lecture on vaccines in Ängelholm in September 2014. Parts of her response were:
”There is a reason, why newborns don’t have a full koagulation.. nature didn’t make ”mistakes” like this.”
Study shows link between vitamin K and cancer:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1883000/
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