Sentences with phrase «prevent bleeding disorders»

As expected, Western diets are very deficient in vitamin K2 and although we typically get enough vitamin k to prevent bleeding disorders we don't get enough K2 to optimally run these important proteins that regulate calcium deposition.

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Your baby will get a vitamin K injection to help the blood clot properly and prevent a serious bleeding disorder.

This injection helps your baby's blood to clot and prevents a rare, but dangerous, newborn bleeding disorder.

«If you can prevent antibody formation in the first place, by finding some way of producing immunological tolerance that gets around that type of protocol, that would be a major advantage,» says David Lillicrap, a clinician and researcher who specializes in bleeding disorders at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT) is a rare, inherited disorder characterized by a severely low number of megakaryocytes, a type of bone marrow cell that makes platelets that are important for clotting and preventing bleeding.

Breed - Related Health Concerns Cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle); bone cancer; bloat; progressive retinal atrophy (disease of the retina causing blindness); Von Willebrand's Disease (bleeding disorder preventing proper clotting of blood); hip dysplasia

Breed - Related Health Concerns Heat rash; glaucoma (group of eye diseases causing blindness); Von Willebrand's Disease (bleeding disorder that prevents proper blood clotting)