Vitamin K is also called the coagulation vitamin. Initially discovered as a compound that can prevent the occurrence of severe bleeding in chickens. Vitamin K encourages blood clotting normally. Vitamin K is important in blood clotting, because this vitamin affects the formation of prothrombin in the liver. If the prothrombin deficiency of this vitamin in the blood is reduced. Consequently, in the event of injury, then the injury will be difficult to stop bleeding from wounds difficult to close.
This vitamin is made by bacteria in the gut. Food ingredients such as liver and leafy vegetables green syuran this vitamin.
Deficiencies can occur, for example, too much use of sulfa drugs so that bacteria that can make vitamin K in intestines, dead.
Many vitamin K wasted with feces, and only a small number can be stored in the liver. Newborns only have vitamin K is very limited, and the synthesis of vitamin K in the gastrointestinal tract started after a few days old baby.
