Babies are at the highest risk for Vitamin-K Deficiency Bleeding in the first week of life, so the standard of care is to give the shot within an hour after birth. Many parents don’t know that the risk of VKDB is high in untreated newborns. I, like many pediatricians, see an increasing number of refusals. These parents see a vulnerability similar to the one that I see in their children, but in their minds the threats come from society. The way I see it, society is by no means benign, but it does offer vaccines and Vitamin K as safeguards against threats that come from nature.
Source : Among the Vitamin K ‘Anti-Vaxxers’
