London, Aug 23 (IANS) A woman in Britain is so afraid of bananas that even looking at it can make her hyperventilate, sweat and throw up.
Unfortunately, Fran Dando’s two-year-old son Harrison loves bananas. So, she wears rubber gloves to feed them to him.
Fran, of Hastings in East Sussex, told The Sun: ‘I make the exception because he’s my little boy. But when someone takes one out or has some in their house I have to leave the room.’
‘It is embarrassing and friends have tried to snap me out of the fear but nothing works.’
When Dando was seven-years-old, her brother had hid a banana in her bed.
‘I felt this horrible slimy thing. It frightened the life out of me. Suddenly I was hyperventilating and sweating. I was frozen in panic. Ever since then if I see one, the same feeling comes back,’ she said.
