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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

‘I was hospitalised for a week due to mould in my damp house’

Lisa Malyon, 42, and her daughter Phoebe, 10, both suffered chest infections after living in a damp home - (cdmillerphotos)

Living in a damp property left a mother and her baby daughter battling constant chest infections and struggling to breathe.

Lisa Malyon found her health drastically deteriorated over the course of two years until her lungs “couldn’t cope” and she found herself struggling to walk up the stairs.

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