'I have a rare allergy to the cold weather - people have told me I look like a monster'
A carer with a rare cold allergy who was once told she looked like a “monster” due to her skin’s red and blotchy reaction to low temperatures wants to raise awareness of the condition to prevent others from being bullied.
“Raising awareness is something that needs to happen because no one knows about it,” said Tammy Rose, who lives in Birmingham. “People are taking the mick and they’re getting bullied for it, and I’m really against that because I had that myself and it can affect your mental health. “It took me a long time to get a name for it,” Tammy explained. “Mum just called it our allergy, or our allergy to the cold, or said ‘you’re having an allergy attack’ – that was the term that she always used.
“When it got really bad, my whole face would swell that much that my eyes started closing in,” she said. “People are disgusted to look at you and ‘you’re a monster’, and I think I ended up just joking about it myself, saying, ‘I’m a tomato on legs’.
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