What happens if you dont get enough vitamin k?

Answer 1

Vitamin K deficiency is extremely rare in healthy adults. Cases of deficiency usually only occur in individuals with malabsorption problems, severe liver damage or disease, or those being treated with drugs that interfere with the vitamin's metabolism. Your health care professional will let you know if you fall into one of these categories. The main symptoms in these cases are that blood doesn't coagulate normally and you can experience increased bruising.

Infants born in the United States and Canada routinely receive a dose of vitamin K at birth (usually 0.5-1.0 mg intramuscularly or 2.0 mg orally within 6 hours of birth). This is because infants are usually born with poor vitamin K status and low amounts of clotting factors, thus increasing the risk of bleeding during the first few weeks. In addition, their immature intestines cannot produce vitamin K. Exclusively breastfed infants receive low amounts of vitamin K from human milk.

Answer 2

if you don't get enough vitamin k when you cut your self it will not stop bleeding. vitamin helps clot blood. to prevent this you can eat leafy greens.