DUBAI: As a young boy, Michael never sat still. He never closed his mouth. He was always jumping around. “He’s a boy,” his mum Debbie Phelps said.
Fast forward to 2016. At the Rio Olympic Games, Michael Phelps, now age 31, won his 23rd Olympic gold. His astounding swimming record made him the most decorated Olympian of all time. It did not come easy. At preschool, teachers complained: Michael couldn’t stay quiet, wouldn’t sit at circle time, didn’t keep his hands to himself, was giggling and laughing and nudging kids for attention.
At age 9, in fifth grade, given his lack of focus and fidgety behaviour, Michael was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). To many parents of children with ADHD, Michael Phelps’s story is great news.
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Children with asthma were not at a greater risk of developing severe disease if they got infected with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, UAE research showed.
Researchers monitored aout 300 children for three months after they had contracted what was most likely the original strain of coronavirus and found they rarely developed more severe symptoms than their non-asthmatic counterparts.
The study was carried out between March and April in 2020 and the results were published in January this year.
Doctors studied newborn infants to 16-year-olds who lived in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
“The results were conclusive, showing the majority of children were either asymptomatic or had minor symptoms regardless of whether they had asthma or not,” said Dr Ahmed
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