Can anyone help with dc wanting to join the army?

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Dd is 15 and in Army Cadets and loves it. She wants to join the army under medical rather than being a regular soldier.

However I'm not sure she can!

When she was small she had some issues with Asthma. In honesty the house was damp and awful. She never had an attack and was never hospitalised but she did have some chesty issues and received steroids once.

Age 6-8 she has no inhalers or treatment.
Age 8 she started to have some issues with being chesty in winter so got inhalers again.

Age 9-14 she had no inhalers or treatment.
Age 15 she had some issues due to the neighbour smoking weed heavily and had an inhaler for a week.

Obviously this means she has to wait four years now before she can apply to join which will take her to 19 but I'm worried the earlier oral steroids might exclude her completely.

In the US if she wasn't treated for asthma after age 13 she would be fine. Since the inhaler at 15 was for an external irritant they would probably not consider it as asthma treatment. They sometimes require a pulmonary function test.

I'm not sure if the British Army follows the same guidelines.

I don't think she will have a problem after the four years. What I would say that, if she is rejected on medical grounds you should always appeal the decision. They get things wrong and I have known perfectly healthy individuals to get rejected and then get in on appeal.