Tracheomalacia: what is it? On Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Florence Pugh discusses a unique respiratory condition
In the latest episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls, English actress Florence Pugh revealed that she has tracheomalacia, a rare respiratory condition.
The 26-year-old star revealed on the August 15 episode of the show that her doctor advised the family to leave damp England to warm up in Spain.
“We were in Spain because I have a respiratory problem, and when I was younger they just said a warmer environment would be better,” the speaker said. Besides having tracheomalacia, I also have asthma. So I’ve just had a different respiratory system since I was a little kid.
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Tracheomalacia, according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, indicates
“Instead of being rigid, the walls of the trachea are soft or flabby because the cartilage in the trachea, or trachea, has not grown out properly or has been injured. Breathing is difficult because the cartilage cannot hold the trachea open, especially when exhaling (exhaling).The trachea can sometimes collapse due to the tension in the adjacent blood arteries.
The Black Widow actress, however, said her health has improved over time.
“Now that I’m an adult, it doesn’t really affect me as much as when I was younger, unless I get sick.”
Florence Pugh and Bear Grylls embarked on a 48-hour journey through the volcanic rainforests of Costa Rica, starting with a helicopter jump.
Tracheomalacia has already been mentioned by Florence Pugh.
Florence Pugh sat down with Sue Perkins in July 2020 for her podcast, Sue Perkins: An Hour or So With…, and shared information about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected her and how tracheomalacia has affected her. affected. She remarked:
My mom always had to be on the lookout for new illnesses and illnesses that could potentially harm me because I’ve had a respiratory problem since I was little.
She went on to say that her mother asked her to go to Los Angeles so as not to expose herself to the new coronavirus.
Pugh informed the reporter that compared to when she was younger, her health has improved over the years as she doesn’t get sick as often.
Although she’s overcome the illness that led to her first diagnosis, the Little Women actress admitted in a 2020 interview with Vogue that she now has a “really terrifying cough.”
In 2014, Florence Pugh made her film debut co-starring Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi, Hannah Rose Caton, Anna Burnett and Lauren McCrostie in Carol Morley’s The Falling.
Later she went on to star in a number of TV shows and movies including Studio City, Marcella, The Commuter, Malevolent, The Little Drummer Girl, Midsommar, Acting for a Cause, Black Widow, Hawkeye, etc.
She will next be seen in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Don’t Worry Darling, A Good Person, The Wonder, Oppenheimer, Dune: Part Two, and The Maid, according to her IMDb bio.
