BIOLOGY
VITAMINS
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Helps us stops bleeding
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Absorbs calcium leading to stronger bones
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Fights off sickness
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Helps us see at night
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is vitamin K and why is it important? Vitamin K is a substance that our body needs to form clots and to stop bleeding. We get vitamin K from the food we eat. Some vitamin K is also made by the good bacteria that live in our intestines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vitamin K helps to treat and prevent unusual bleeding by increasing the body’s production of blood clotting factors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vitamin K is used to prevent and treat certain blood clotting (coagulation) issues. It’s also used to prevent severe bleeding (hemorrhagic disease) in newborns. Vitamin K may be used in cases of ongoing IV feeding. It may also be used when antibiotics have killed bacteria in the intestines that make vitamin K.