asmi
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Which vitamin is absent in colostrum ?
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| dxtxpx
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vit D
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| asmi
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correct
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i think it is K .. are you sure?? :oops:
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i guess its Vitamin K thats deficient,thats why newly born are administered Vit.K injection.
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| dxtxpx
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Question was what vitamin is absent in colostrom. According to this site human colostorum contains twice as much vitamin K than mature human milk
http://www.health.state.mo.us/dnhs_pdfs/R_NPE_pdi...
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| asmi
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no its vitamin D..Iam sure about it 101%
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| dxtxpx
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Yeah I was telling them its definetely not vit K as vit K is twice as much in colostrum 
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| leftfoot
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kaplan says breast milk lacks vit K and thats why in all instiutional deliveries babies are given vit k soon as the are born...
can you give the referance where you read that breast milk has twice the amt of vit k??
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| dxtxpx
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colostrum is the intial milk and when they just say human breast milk thats mature milk, there is a difference in their composition
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| kpm24
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My understanding is that newborns are deprived of vitamin K since Vit K is synthesized from the bacteria in intestines... and the newborns intestines are still sterile.
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| usmleasr
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:roll: ..good discussion....
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| Bela
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Nice fight! Can I participate, too?
Okkkk, from what I have read in Dr. Goljan's High Yield Notes (he's the guy who has done some of the high yield books and used to teach for kaplan a few years back I think), he mentions that there are two vitamins that lack in breast milk: Vit D and Vit K. So both groups are right 
Now, Vit K is synthesized by colonic unaerobic bacteria and that's why you give newborns Vit K injections...cuz it takes up to 5 days to produce the bacteria in the gut. By the way, according to Goljan, this concept was tested in the past. A 4 day old infant was breast fed by his mother and presents with bleeding. Cause of bleeding? Lack of Vit K in milk.
Must know that kid is in danger until day 5.
Here's also a nice correlation with Warfarin: It inhibits epoxide reductase, the enzyme that is used in the activation of Vit K. In the next step, gamma carboxylation is supposed to happen.
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