Does Vitamin K injection for newborn contain Thimerosal-Mercury like vaccines?
Or the content is natural and simply a vitamin?
Apparently, in our country Philippines. The vaccines still contain thimerosal/mercury.
Mercury is no longer used in vaccines. Do your research.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal.htm
Phytomenadione or Vitamin K is given to newborn babies to prevent bleeding. It helps to clot the blood and as newborn babies are relatively deficient in vitamin K, it was recommended that all babies receive it at birth. Breast-fed babies may be given it orally in 3 doses as formula milk contains the vitamin and bottle-fed babies don’t need the third dose. It is not a live vaccine and would not need to contain mercury, this is used as a preservative. The BNF (British National Formulary) states that vitamin K injections contain glycholic acid and lecithin . I think the actual vitamin is manufactured synthetically, most “natural” vitamins are hard to extract and don’t keep their potency very well.
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Mercury is no longer used in vaccines. Do your research.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafe.....erosal.htm
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