This Guy is Allergic to ALL Electronics and Can't Leave His House
- Publish Date
- Monday, 20 October 2014, 4:57PM
A disease that makes living in the modern world almost impossible...
Peter Lloyd, 42, suffers from a rare and cruel condition known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity cannot go outside his house in case he walks near a wifi network.
He's been confined to a sofa in his home in St Fagans in Cardiff, and is unable to use any electrical gadgets like TVs, phones and CD players in case it causes a severe reaction.
Visitors have to leave mobile phones and watches outside and he cannot use mains electricity for heating or lighting his home – forcing him to wash with water heated on a gas cooker.
Mr Lloyd is now unable to walk due to his condition. Leaving the house could cause him to come into contact with someone on a mobile phone, a passing car, a power drill or even a wifi zone.
To pass the time he reads around 100 books a year – often by candlelight when it gets dark.
The former personal fitness and nutrition trainer said: ‘I first began to experience what I now know were early symptoms when I was in my mid-twenties.
‘I would get a foggy feeling in the head after looking at a computer screen and had an inability to think straight.
‘I had difficulty talking – what I called “thought block”.’
Mr Lloyd added that he remembers trying to write out a cheque in a nutrition shop and ended up messing it up six times.
‘I had an early brick-type mobile phone linked to a network called GSM that affected me.
‘As time went on I realised it was becoming sensitised to more and different frequencies and devices.
‘My natural reaction was to believe I could cope, but the situation just got worse. I would get intense headaches in the front of my head.’
‘I came across some articles that described my symptoms and I found out as much as I could about electromagnetic hypersensitivity,’ he said.
After spending three years living in Spain, Mr Lloyd returned to Cardiff, where he eventually lost the ability to walk.
His landlady, who lives in London, has taken a possession order against him after becoming unhappy that the house is not being heated and he now faces eviction.
Mr Lloyd wants to be rehomed to a purpose-built isolated wooden hut because of the severe pain he suffers.
Mr Lloyd, pictured from outside his home with his dog Iggy Pop
Source: Dailymail