A woman with an allergy to the cold is forced to keep her heating on 24/7 - and has admitted she'll soon be 'too scared' to check her energy bills due to enormous price hikes.
Sam Newland, 50, keeps her house at a constant 30 degrees throughout autumn and winter - and sometimes during chilly summer months too, but it is predicted that during 2022 energy bills in the UK could rise by over 50 percent.
Sam, who uses So Energy for her heating, has suffered from cold urticaria since moving back to the UK from Singapore when she was just 13.
Doctors initially had no idea why she was developing rashes and welts and it took two years for them to diagnose the cause as an allergy to cold temperatures.
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