Preventable Infant Bleeding Deaths Rise as Parents Reject Vitamin K Shot

Infants are dying from preventable vitamin K deficiency bleeding disorder due to parental refusal of routine newborn prophylaxis.

In delivery rooms across the United States, infants are dying from a bleeding disorder that a single, decades-old injection could prevent entirely. The vitamin K shot — safe, inexpensive, and nearly perfectly effective — is being refused by a growing number of parents whose distrust of medical institutions has expanded beyond vaccines into the most routine corners of newborn care. These deaths are not tragedies of ignorance alone; they are the visible edge of a deeper cultural fracture between medical authority and parental autonomy, playing out on the bodies of children too new to the world t

Preventable Infant Bleeding Deaths Rise as Parents Reject Vitamin K Shot

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