Symptoms of RDS
The following symptoms are visible either immediately or within a few hours after birth of the child. These include:
- Difficulty in breathing, apnea
- Rapid or shallow breathing
- Grunting noise with every breath
- Flaring of the nostrils
- Delayed or weak cry
- Frothing at the lips
- Reduced urine output
- Blue color around the lips and nail beds
- Swelling of the extremities






