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Odd that this is so talked about now. I’ve had it for 20 years and got it in FL cleaning up the mo-in-law’s property up near the GA line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome#History

We used to have ribeye night every couple of weeks. Then I started waking up with the hives at 1-2 am. Took a while to put two and two together. Tried different sheets, laundry detergent etc.

It is manageable. Steal one bite of steak from the wife. Steal two bites next time and so on until I can eat a serving again. Baby back ribs and other fatty pork will trigger it too. Had some ham from a home raised heritage breed and went way past the hives into Anaphylaxis zone one time. Definitely not “the other white meat”.

Doctors in Turkey came up with a desensitization protocol for a couple of people there that had it. Started with a little pure beef extract(water that beef had been boiled in) and doubled the amount every day. Then went to actual beef.

I’ve been doing cleanup around the property, raking and burning leaves etc so I’m allergic again due to a couple of Lone Star bites. Got the place cleaned up and just need to spread a bunch of Sevin granules to get rid of the ticks for the year.

Steak-um is 100% beef and nothing else. Good for desensitization. They had NY Strip on sale last week so my son will be having it for dinner tonight and I’ll steal a small chunk.