Vitamin K
Food and Nutrition
<p>Vitamins are substances that your body needs to grow and develop normally.
Vitamin K helps your body by making proteins for healthy bones and tissues.
It also makes proteins for blood clotting.
If you don't have enough vitamin K, you may bleed too much.</p><p>Newborns have very little vitamin K.
They usually get a shot of vitamin K soon after they are born.</p><p>If you take blood thinners, you need to be careful about how much vitamin K you get.
You also need to be careful about taking vitamin E supplements.
Vitamin E can interfere with how vitamin K works in your body.
Ask your health care provider for recommendations about these vitamins.</p><p>There are different types of vitamin K.
Most people get vitamin K from plants such <span class="qt1">as</span> green vegetables, and dark ber
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