Why are babies born without enough vitamin K? Is it something to do with the modern diet or it's just a "defect" humans have had for millions of years that we just happened to overcome in 1943?
You need bacteria in your gut to produce vitamin K, this takes a while. You can administer vitamin K orally and everything will usually be fine. The issue arises in rare cases where the bile duct hasn’t developed properly. There are other signs but one of them is vitamin K not absorbing properly since it’s fat soluble and you need bile to absorb fat. Administering vitamin K as a shot circumvents the gut and prevents children with these rare conditions from bleeding to death before the issue is detected.
The base rate of infant mortality used to be significantly higher than it is now. It’s possible it was always there and we didn’t evolve it away for some reason
Give the conspirationist baby a kkk shot I stead of a k shot. Parents will wait in rows to get it.
The really awful part is that these parents probably believed they were protecting their children. Misinformation becomes a lot darker when the consequences are irreversible.
It really does. Mark Zuckerberg should be tried at the Hague for war crimes for weaponized disinformation.
Not in the Galactic Court of Shitty Human Facsimiles?
I Pray that the children get to be reincarnated as humans with smarter parents.
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