Prevention of intracranial hemorrhage caused by late-onset vitamin K deficiency

Abstract

 The analysis in the 66 cases of later intracranial-hemorrhage caused by vitamin K deficiency reveals that most of those patients (nearly 87. 8%)were among one to three months after birth. Since the vitamin K in the mother's milk is only 1/4 of that in fresh cow milk and the lack of vegetables or fruits in mother's food, hight rate(75. 8%) of the case took place in breast fed infants than the infants by cow milk fed or mixed formula fed. Infants of small age are more susceptible to the intracranial-hemorrhage caused by lack of vitamin k after diarrhoea, hepatitis syndrome or recurrent infection. The incidence caused by the above mentioned diseases are 31. 8%, 37. 9% and 21. 2% respectively. Therefore, overall measures should be taken in prevetion of the disease. Those are giving more in struction about mother's nutrition; taking vitamin K tablet to the breast fed infants and the small age infants who have suffered from above mentioned diseases.