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Yeah, it's about prevention.

Absolutely.

So let's just

quickly start off.

What actually is asthma?

The best way to think about asthma, firstly, it's a long-term condition.

It's not something that you have once and then it disappears and you never have again, generally.

It is a long-term condition.

And it affects the airways and carrying air in and out of the lungs.

So when you have an asthma attack, for example, those airways become inflamed, they become narrow, produce lots of mucus, and the muscles around them tighten, known as bronchoconstriction.

The thing with asthma, though, is that get it quickly enough and it is reversible.

Asthma is a reversible condition.

You have asthma long term, obviously.

However, an asthma attack is reversible, provided you get to it quickly enough.

So I've never had an actual attack.

Mine just creeps up on me every now and then.

I've never really been in that situation.

Although once I will say, and we were talking about this in the anaphylactic episode, that when I went on a horse once, I did have a very nasty attack and they put me full of adrenaline to calm me down.

And that was absolutely fine.

But I've never had an attack where I've been hospitalized or anything like that.

Is it common? Are there a lot of people in the country with asthma? Yes.

Yeah, it's a very common condition.

It's one of the most common conditions, particularly in childhood.

But as I said before, it's really about recognising them fast, recognising them quickly and acting on it.

That's the key.