KINE 4020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Vitamin K, Nutraceutical, Health Canada
27 May 2014
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Health care practitioners understand the effect of vitamin k on blood clotting and advise their patients accordingly in order to prevent the development of any deficiencies or toxicities: health care practitioners recognize the need for maintaining an adequate intake of dietary iron (both heme and non heme forms) as this mineral is needed for cellular respiration and is incorporated into the hemoglobin molecule of red blood cells. W h y s h o u l d s t u d e n t s c a r e : vitamin k is necessary for blood to clot; deficiency causes uncontrolled bleeding. M i s c o n c e p t i o n s / s t u m b l i n g b l o c k s : students often have difficulty understanding the differences between iron deficiency and anemia.
