I never used to take allergies seriously until I took a walking holiday in a Portuguese spring and spent the first day red-eyed and expelling tears and snot like I’d sprung a leak.
I was convinced I’d picked up an infection on the plane on the way over – because you do – so I went to the local pharmacy.
Having no Portuguese and smart enough not to insult them with my minimal Spanish, I tried to mime “I think I caught an upper respiratory tract infection on my flight from Australia.”
There was a lot of fake wing-spreading and real nose blowing, although I stopped short of doing a Ray-Gun kangaroo to indicate Australia. For a moment I feared the pharmacist would think I was miming “bird flu” but then he gave me an antihistamine.
I didn’t know the Iberian for antibiotic, so I took a couple on the grounds that they could do no harm. I was “cured” by the time I walked the 200 cobbled metres to our digs.
It turned out that, although I don’t have allergies here in Australia, I had no immunity to the Portuguese plants and flowers that I had been traipsing through.
All of which is to bring us to our first post today, from a tenant who is allergic to chemicals and is trying to stop her landlord from spraying her flat for creepy-crawlies.
If spraying the place with pesticides would induce a physical reaction, does that mean the landlord has failed to provide a healthy living environment? That’s HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Our small scheme wants to transfer to self-management but our big company strata managers want to delay. That’s HERE.
- Confused over lower bills for centralise air-con. What have we been paying for? That’s HERE.
- If the courtyard is common property, who owns the tiles? That’s HERE.
- UPDATE: All the time we’ve been arguing over strata law, we’ve just discovered we are company title. That’s HERE.
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Allergies are easy to dismiss – until you get one. So is it irresponsible to use pesticides in a rental home where someone may be allergic? PLUS the strata scheme that turned out to be company title.
[See the full post at: Forum: Allergies are nothing to be sneezed at]
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