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Respiratory Distress Syndrome - Screening and Prevention - Screening and Prevention

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Taking steps to ensure a healthy pregnancy might prevent your newborn from being born before his or her lungs have fully developed. These steps include:

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  • Following a healthy eating plan
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  • Managing any medical conditions you have
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  • Not smoking and avoiding tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illegal drugs
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  • Preventing infections
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  • Seeing your doctor regularly during your pregnancy
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Your doctor may give you injections of a corticosteroid medicine if he or she thinks you may give birth too early. This medicine can speed up development of the lungs, brain, and kidneys in your baby and surfactant production. Usually, within about 24 hours of your taking this medicine, the baby's lungs start making enough surfactant.

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Treatment with corticosteroids can reduce your baby's risk for RDS. If the baby does develop RDS, it may not be as serious.

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Source URL: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/subscribe/4424
Source Agency: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Captured Date: 2019-07-12 14:26:00.0
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