This is an emergency. We need to eradicate this tick from the earth immediately.
Why in the world would any rational person think that?
Vegan fantasy
Pork chops and bacon are red meat?
Can we genetically modify it to make people allergic to kale and quinoa so I never have to hear about them again.
Meat allergy? More likely an allergy to either something the meat was prepared with, or something injected for flavor, or hamburger mixed with soy. People allergic to soy can’t even use soybean oil, a very commonly used oil, if I’m not mistaken, though it’s usually the proteins in an allergen that cause reactions.
tick ping
How soon before PETA demands all kids get “inoculated” with this stuff.
Shhh...Don’t let PETA learn about this or they’ll demand schoolkids be injected with it.
I hope people who have been bitten by ticks, and get antibiotics for it, are immune. My husband was bitten by a lone star tick. I pulled it off of him and took him to the doctor the same day. The doctor didn’t believe me that it was a lone star, even though I brought it with us, saying they aren’t found in our area, but he begrudgingly gave my husband a course of antibiotics, at my insistence. The next week, the paper reported an older man about 100 miles from us died from the Heartland virus, carried by lone star ticks. People are very casual about tick bites, but they are more and more carrying deadly diseases. Lyme disease has some hideous outcomes, from arthritis to dementia. I hate ticks!
“The key ingredient in Cetuximab is a specific carbohydrate that all non-primate mammals carry in their cell walls and tissues, Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or, if you’re pressed for time, alpha-gal.”
I was wondering why she wasn’t allergic to her own meat, and this article explained it.
I’ll have to read the whole articles more often, as opposed to the FR standards, I guess.
Sounds like a subset of people have the allergy to alpha-gal...cuz there are lot more people who have been bitten by ticks without reaction. May be human genetic mutation. Why no reaction to pts own muscle...meat? ....some people think rheum. Arthritis has similar genesis...i.e...viral infection in someone with genetic profile whose immune system attacks patients connective tissue and virus and wont stop after virus is cleared.
Lots of girls nowadays allergic to alpha-guy.
I've been bitten numerous times and have heard of people becoming allergic to red meat after a tick bite. This terrifies me as I LOVE a nice juicy steak. Life is over if I won't be able to eat a burger.
My SIL has this allergy. It makes you allergic to the meat of mammals. She can eat poultry and fish. The doctor has told her that some people lose the allergy over time and some don’t.
Nitrite allergies also make it hazardous to eat processed meats and cheese. Also causes a reaction to certain brands of tobacco and ashes more than others.
We finally figured it out when there was a similar reaction to nitrite preservative treated spinach. Just avoid processed meats and take potassium if it gets bad.
Thank goodness they’ve been slowly phasing nitrite preservatives in some food brands.
I just read several research articles on this. Absolutely amazing how it works. If the tick bites an animal and picks up the Alpha-Gal Carbohydrate, and then bites and injects it in you, you develop antibodies that respond to the consumption of red meat. It does not affect consumption of chicken, fish or seafood.