Kiev - Post Report Question and Answers
What do people who suffer from environmental or food allergies need to know?
Dairy free options are plentiful!! As for environmental allergies, if you had seasonal allergies before coming to Kyiv, you will have them in Kyiv. - May 2021
Food allergies are sort of a foreign concept, but people try to be helpful. You can get gluten free products at some restaurants and stores. - May 2017
It is important to know how to identify allergens in both Ukrainian and Russian, since restaurant menus can be in either one (though not both). Food in supermarket must, by law, be labeled in Ukrainian. - Nov 2016
Seasonal allergy season in Ukraine is CRAZY. There is a local tree that gives off crazy fluff into the air for all of June. It was the first time I had truly bad seasonal allergies. - Jul 2016
Seasonal allergies in spring and fall for some people. - Nov 2015
Lots of trees and greenery means lots of pollen in the spring. - Jun 2015
