AGS symptoms present in a lot of different ways.
For Daughter it mimics chronic fatigue syndrome. If she gets too much mammal protein she will be flopped out on the couch within a couple hours.
Mrs. Augie gets extreme nausea to the point of hurling if she gets too much. She had tested positive for beef allergy many years ago. She re-tested a year ago and the beef allergy was no longer present so she started eating more beef. It didn’t take long at all for her to get really bad sick on it so now she just doesn’t eat mammal meat. Very likely it was always AGS causing her issues.
Just to be on the safe side both are now carrying an Epi pen everywhere they go. It’s a very good idea for anyone with AGS to do the same. Apparently AGS can cause hypersensitivity to bee venom, which can kill you (or worse than kill you) if you’re allergic to it.
One of my buddies at work would go into convulsions if he ate more than a teaspoon of beef fat. He spent five years eating incrementally larger amounts of very lean beef and has mostly gotten over it, but he’s still very careful not to over-indulge.
I need to get tested myself. Several years ago I had a sudden onset of severe spongiform dermatitis. The derm clinic doc said “oh you’ve just gotten too much sun over the years and now your skin can’t take it.” They gave me TAC cream, told me to stay out of the sun, and sent me home. We switched to hypo-allergenic bath soap/laundry soap/dryer sheets/etc. Didn’t make much difference.
What did make a difference was cutting down my intake of mammal protein. I was getting a bit heavier than I like so I started doing intermittent fasting and practicing better portion control. I didn’t completely change what I was eating, but I substantially changed how much I was eating, and how often. A year after I started that the dermatitis was almost completely gone. To me that points in the general direction of AGS.
I’ve had half a dozen bites from lone star ticks this spring, the most recent was stuck to my right pinky finger when I woke up this morning. We keeps our pets vetted but I’m almost sure they bring the ticks indoors. I don’t like going scorched earth on bugs for a lot of reasons but when it comes down to me or the bugs I’m picking me every time. This might be the time to treat the house yard/garden/etc. with seven and/or triazinon and try to at least reduce the numbers of the cursed things up around the house.
You might want to try this stuff.....
Nature’s Good Guys
https://www.naturesgoodguys.com/
Beneficial Nematodes
https://www.naturesgoodguys.com/collections/beneficial-nematodes
There’s also this place, Arbico Organics, but it seems like Nature’s Good Guys is cheaper.
Arbico Organics
https://www.arbico-organics.com/category/beneficial-nematodes
I read that a band of gravel 10-12 foot wide works like a moat for ticks once things are dry. Basically, it’s like crossing the Sahara for them.
My driveway is already a U shape half way around the house, so once a season, I spread Sevin granules on it and also the walking path that finishes the circle around the house. I’m going to go ahead and expand the walking path, gravel it, and do a full wrap around driveway. USPS/UPS/FedEx will be happy and it will be handy for me as well.