Vitamin K

• Vitamin K

  • We get vitamin K from leafy greens, liver, green tea, cheese.
  • Like vitamin E, vitamin K supports the immune system. Vitamin K helps us to maintain healthy bones.
  • Vitamin K also helps blood clotting and helps us to heal wounds.

  
  

  Excess and too little vitamin K
• Excess and too little vitamin K

  
  

  • We can't have too much vitamin K.
  • Although adults are very unlikely to have too little vitamin K, newborn babies can suffer from uncontrolled bleeding if they have too little vitamin K.
  • NHS guidelines for daily dose:
  • 0.001mg per kg of body weight.
• what are the functions of vitamin k?

  helps blood clot after injury
• main sources of vitamins in vitamin K?

  green leafy vegetables, liver, cheese, green tea
• deficiency in vitamin k?

  rare but may happen in new born babies