This book is actually three books published as one volume for what may be the first time. This is the story of the Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon and it's beautiful, tragic and stirring. Katherine was the daughter of Queen Isabella of Spain.
As a result, a form of vitamin K deficiency, called hemorrhagic disease of the newborn, may develop. This disease involves spontaneous bleeding beneath the skin or elsewhere in the infant's body, and occurs in about 1% of all infants.
Vitamin K (VK) deficiency can occur in any age group but is encountered most often in infancy. VK, an essential, lipid-soluble vitamin that plays a vital role in the production of coagulation proteins, is found in green, leafy vegetables and in oils, such as soybean, cottonseed, canola, and olive oils.VK is also synthesized by colonic bacteria.(See Etiology and Epidemiology.).arious drugs, such as cholestyramine, bind to bile acids, thus preventing fat-soluble vitamin absorption. Coumadin blocks the effect of VK epoxide reductase and VK reductase, thereby inducing an intracellular deficiency.