Posted on 05/02/2023 5:31:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You may just be one tick bite away from never being able to eat a ham sandwich again.
The lone star tick is making its way into Massachusetts from the southeastern part of the United States. People will find them on Nantucket and the coast. The tick's bite can cause some people to develop an unexpected food allergy.
"The reason we are seeing more coastal areas is because there is a substantial difference when it comes to temperature in coastal regions than inlands," explained Dr. Goudarz Molaei, Chief Scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. "In some municipalities it has become a major problem or predominant tick."
When these ticks bite certain animals they can acquire a sugar molecule from the blood. When they bite a person, that molecule can get transferred into the body.
"With the expansion of the lone star tick, we are seeing more and more incidents of this allergy," adds Dr. Molaei. "It doesn't happen in every person who is bit by the lone star tick."
The molecule is called alpha-gal. A person's body creates antibodies to fight against it. It turns out that molecule is also in certain types of red meat, and cancer treatments. This will cause some people to become allergic to products like beef or pork. The reactions are delayed and can show up two to six hours later.
"A diagnosis isn't clear because the reaction may come while you are asleep, and no one relates it to eating a steak for dinner six hours before," said Dr. Aleena Banerji, Clinical Director at Mass General Hospital's Allergy and Immunology unit. "The exposure of that sugar molecule in humans triggers an allergic reaction that at times can be severe."
Dr. Banerji says people can grow out of the allergy, but it can take a long time. She also recommends that anyone who has acquired this allergy should carry an EpiPen on them. Eating red meat can cause anaphylaxis.
"The symptoms are delayed allergic reactions, and could be hives, swelling, could be lip swelling, nausea and vomiting," lists Dr. Banerji.
Probably developed by the government to implement insect ingestion. No one ever has ever been allergic to red meat.
Was this tick manufactured in a lab funded by the WEF and set loose on our shores?? LOL, LOL
Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
A Vegetarian tick. You get bit and you turn into a vegetarian. Here is hoping there is not a tick that bites you and turns you into a transsexual.
My oldest got Lyme’s from a tick bite and also developed allergies to multiple protiens found in milk, chicken eggs, wheat, rye and spelt. Over the years she had become less sensitive to the milk protein and can eat hard aged cheeses in moderation.
Protein allergies from tick bites is a real thing.
Due to the mild winter the tick population has exploded in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I’ve seen a few Lone Star ticks there recently, so they’re definitely migrating further than Massachusetts.
I’ve had this on and off for close to 20 years after cleaning up some land and getting tick bites. I was able to eat a full steak a month ago but did raking and burning a couple of weeks ago and got another Lone Star bite that set it off again. I had gone 3-4 years without a tick bite setting me off.
Allergy docs in Turkey figured out how to desensitize people by feeding ever increasing doses of beef starting with 10 drops of beef extract(beef stock), 20, 40 and then small doses of actual meat.
Only two patients because they’re the only known cases in Turkey.
I’m going to try it with deli roast beef. The prepackaged stuff that comes in uniform slice sizes. Start with half a slice, then 1 slice, 2 slices and so on. When I get to 5-6 slices, Then on to small, lean pieces of steak. Need to get a food scale. Lean vs fatty matters. A ribeye will give a reaction faster than a lean cut.
And I've had allergists tell me that they are not familiar with delayed allergic reactions that happen that far out, hours later.
Sublingual drop therapy is a great way to treat allergies, especially food allergies. And yet try to find some doctor who does it.
Good luck with that one.
Until the bioweapons industry and the NIH, but I repeat myself—that is, until they stop engineering organisms to kill humans, this tick-meat interaction will be considered a bioweapon.
Bkmrk
So is it just getting bitten, or does it have to feed like deer ticks do to transmit Lyme Disease?
My understanding is that the deer tick needs to be attached and feeding for close to 24 hours to really be a risk for contracting Lyme Disease. I’m wondering if the Lone Star Ticks are the same.
Also, how winter hardy are they? There doesn’t seem to be much information that way. MA and PA are a bit milder than around where we are in NH. We are a 5a growing zone and they are at least a 5b or 6a.
I hate ticks, but mr. mm and I do take precautions. We spray stuff down, use insect repellent, and do tick checks and shower after being outside in the woods.
Since we are out in the middle of nowhere on 20+ acres, we take the clothes off outside on the back porch and go right into the shower. The laundry room is right by the back door, too, so the clothes can go right into the washer. That way we’re not dragging the ticks into the house.
Mr mm has been finding attached ticks on him in the morning after doing the tick check the night before, and it turns out he was just taking his clothes off and dropping them on the floor by the bed. NOT a great move. I laid down the law about that. Any possible tick infested clothes need to be left outside until the laundry can get done.
Be on the lookout for Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci researching Lone star tick gain of function.
My tax accountant has Lyme’s disease and she said she can’t eat any “mammal meat” beef, pork, chicken, lamb, etc. Can eat fish and seafood, but “no” to the rest. At the time it was the craziest food thing I’d ever heard.......
Definitely wasn’t 24 hours. It’s head wasn’t buried but it was working on it. As soon as I noticed I had gotten into a nest of seed ticks, I went in, grabbed a change of clothes and changed in the shop/barn and left the clothes outside. When I changed is when I found the Lone Star. Couldn’t have been latched on more than 2-3 hours.
There have been times I had a Lone Star not bother me so I don’t think every one of them can cause it.
Had a good run of 3-4 years without getting a tick, especially considering most of the property is forest. I’ve always tried to push my limit to get back to eating beef. Now that I found this study, I’m thinking I can get back to it quicker.
I’m lucky that for the most part, I get the hives and that’s it. Evidently some people can eat a piece of chicken cooked on the same grill as beef was and go into anaphylactic shock. I did have a bad episode one night several years ago. Had some ham that was from a heritage breed of pig. Normally it’s wake up at 2-3am with hives, take benadryl and keep epipen handy, scratch for two hours and go back to bed. I’m wiped out the next day though.
Lone Stars are mostly in the Southeast from NC to East Texas. We get freezes, snow and ice here in MO. Don’t know how far North they can go. What they can’t handle is very dry so they’re not out West.
Could? Nope. A fact.
Lone Star ticks here. A different kind of tick in Australia and a third different kind of tick in Europe all causing this same thing. What are the chances?
I knew a woman 15 years ago who had a meat allergy.
I just read last week that lone star ticks do not carry Lyme disease.
But I can’t imagine being allergic to meat.
Yep. A guy who did some contracting for us a couple of years ago got bitten and suffered this. I told my wife to just shoot me if I’m ever similarly afflicted. (I’m ordering that Israeli army surplus chemical warfare suit for lawn mowing season.)
hte left are probably raising lone star ticks for this very purpose- causing allergies to red meat
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