Tegucigalpa - Post Report Question and Answers
What do people who suffer from environmental or food allergies need to know?
N/A - Jan 2024
Take your R&R during burn season if that's going to disrupt your health. Food allergies are mostly understood at the nicer restaurants, but I would not feel safe with a life-threatening allergy unless I was fully fluent in Spanish. However, I don't see nuts often so perhaps this might be a little safer post for a nut allergy. There are people with celiac disease at post. You can probably manage it here, especially since many food items are made from the corn flour (Masa) instead of wheat flour. I do not have celiac disease, but am wheat-allergic and I eat pupusas, tacos, salads, and parilladas (cooked meats platters) when going out to eat. - Aug 2023
Air pollution. - Feb 2022
If you have a severe food allergy, be very careful eating at any restaurant (servers/cooks often make mistakes when mentioning ingredients). - Oct 2019
See above. Food allergies are problematic. The general populace doesn't have a very high educational level, so it is difficult for restaurant staff to make fine distinctions and execute critical thinking functions about what specific ingredients may be in a given food. Likewise, if you are a strict vegetarian or only eat Halal or something, you'll have problems eating out. There may be lard in seemingly vegetarian things like refried beans (though what most people call "lard" is often actually palm oil shortening). If you aren't too picky it'll be fine. In my opinion, an accidental ingestion of a bit of pork now and then won't kill you or significantly increase your carbon footprint. And I think God will understand. - May 2018
If you have a real food allergy, I wouldn't trust any restaurants here to correctly or safely prepare your food. For environmental allergies, please see above. - May 2018
- Good climate. - Feb 2016
People burn the bush here in the spring, so watch out because it can get really smoggy. - Jul 2015
Doesn't seem that there's much here to be worried about on that end. - Dec 2014
The farmers burn the fields once a year and it causes a lot of dust smog and smoke for a couple of months. - Oct 2014
