Posted on 01/14/2022 4:58:26 PM PST by Trillian
I'd always loved meat growing up - sausage sandwiches, lamb cutlets and of course, Christmas ham.
So I was far from thrilled when I discovered that I had developed an allergy to red meat at the age of 14.
I had been bitten by a tick and developed what is now known as a mammalian meat allergy, which saw me develop the potentially life-threatening condition anaphylaxis, which means I have to carry an epi-pen.
One reaction was so severe I had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance after being given a shot of steroids and antihistamines by my GP.
Now at the age of 25 I haven't had a bite of beef, lamb or pork for years.
But there's one food that I've managed to keep down without breaking out into full-body hives - McDonald's cheeseburgers.
It's an experience that has both delighted and horrified me.
Usually if I were to sink my teeth into a beef burger, I'd be covered in an agonisingly itchy rash that spreads all over my body from head to toe within five hours.
My last reaction was in 2017, when I was still allowed to eat pork, and had devoured a bacon and egg roll for breakfast.
It would be my last.
Hours later, I was writhing on the floor trying to stop myself from scratching the rash that had cropped up all over my body.
Not even a cold shower did the trick and after I started to feel wheezy, I knew this reaction was unlike the others and I was taken to hospital.
A subsequent allergy test confirmed the intolerance had now broadened to include pork. Goodbye Christmas ham.
But it seemed I was immune to ill effects from the $2 cheeseburgers my favourite fast food restaurant sells.
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That is something else. Just because it is heritage pork does not mean it is organic/natural. My family raised grass finished Angus beef for years. We ate all we could and sold the rest. McD’s and other fast food chains messed me up when I ate their crap.
I eat wild pig all the time and store bought farm pig will mess me up. I have been buying paddock pigs from the local Mennonites lately, good stuff. (and chicken and rabbits as well).
Why ask?
Steve Martin had the answer to that a long time ago.
Because they are made from earth worms.
https://thegoodlylawfulsociety.org/mcdonalds-uses-worm-meat-fillers-can-legally-call-100-beef/
Anyone can be allergic to anything.
Some are much more common than others, true, but some people can be allergic to the weirdest things.
I have heard of this allergy developing as a result of being bitten by certain ticks. It’s real.
Yeah kinda sucks because I’m wanting to get a small breed of pig to raise. Will probably still get them to grind with the goat meat and add just a little fat. If I eat at 6-7pm and take some benadryl right before bed, I’m ok. It’s a delayed allergic reaction. The only delayed food allergy ever. It takes about 6 hours to hit. Took me a while to figure out why I was waking up at 2am with the hives. Finally narrowed it down to ribeye night that we used to have every two weeks or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
I’ve noticed if I don’t get bit by a tick for a couple of years, the allergy lessens. Problem is, I decided to buy a hunk of woods in the Ozarks and clear a homestead so I get bit most every year. It’s the Lone Star tick that does it.
Commercial pigs are “the other white meat”. Heritage are darker and richer.
She has a mental condition.
Not if you get bit by the tick that causes the allergy.
The tick is in Arkansas, and it’s the one thing about Arkansas that scares me. We moved to Arkansas last year.
https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/alpha-gal/index.html
LGM - Lab Grown Meat
My accountant got Lyme Disease from a tick bite. She said she cannot eat any mammal meat at all. Chicken, fish, that’s about it.....
“I think Casper the golfer had that same condition, ate buffalo meat.”
Well, there you go. A possible solution to the young lady’s malady. Perhaps the golfer and the lady can exchange info via e-mail to solve her problem.
BTW, I enjoy buffalo meat. Too expensive where I live, but affordable when I head north to the Michigan UP. Love buffalo roast. Hard to find, but so delicious.
Now I’m making me hungry.
Take care, Vet.
Worms
How does buffalo meat compare to beef?
Mutton beats the rest!
Soylent Green.
Simple. No mammal meat in McDonald’s hamburgers.
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