Posted on 08/09/2014 7:40:55 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick.
This bizarre problem was only discovered a few years ago but is growing as the ticks spread from the Southwest and the East to more parts of the United States. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has landed people in the hospital with severe allergic reactions.
Few patients seem aware of the risk, and even doctors are slow to recognize it. As one allergist who has seen 200 cases on New York's Long Island said, "Why would someone think they're allergic to meat when they've been eating it their whole life?"
The culprit is the Lone Star tick, named for Texas, a state famous for meaty barbecues. The tick is now found throughout the South and the eastern half of the United States.
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I meant to say NOT bitten by the Lone Star tick. We have resulted to feeding dogs novel proteins..pork, chicken, lamb, salmon, kangaroo...Venison is off limits because many of them also have the tick protein.
“If I ever become allergic to beef my life will be over.I refuse to survive on chicken and fish.”
Have you never partaken in the paradise that is lamb, or it’s less-precious (but still delicious) goat? Heck, I could live on just pig for the rest of my life...
They stop eating Native Americans, but all others are fair game...
Here in the northeast much of the tick problem stems from an unwillingness to deal with the deer problem. In my town we don’t have deer ticks, yet if I drive 1/2 hour west they do. The difference? I’m in a semi-urban area without deer.
Being on the edge of the Meadowlands, we do have ticks; they are bigger, and carry fewer, different diseases.
Years ago my wife (girlfriend at the time) went to the hospital with a horrible reaction to something; the first question from the doctor: Do you have a dog?
When she replied that she did, the doctor said something rode home on him and bit you. She was OK after some kind of treatment, but it was very creepy; still don’t know what it was, but we don’t have deer ticks here.
I love lamb *and* pork but I'm assuming that they qualify as "red meat".If I'm wrong...if this tick *only* makes you allergic to beef...then that's not quite as bad.
I heard Rush talking about the ticks yesterday but I think he got it wrong. He said if the tick bites the cow then the meat will cause you to have allergic reaction. The article says if the tick bites you, then you will have an allergic reaction to meat.
I have lived in Texas my entire life and and I have seen many ticks, on myself and on my dogs, I have never seen a tick with a white spot on it.
Here in the northeast we just had a brutally cold winter the like of which we haven’t seen in decades. We had snowfalls that weren’t abnormal, but because temps were so low snow just wouldn’t melt. When people finally wood get a chance to clear it, they would be chopping through frozen layers with varying hues of gray from grime.
I was hiking earlier today (for the first time in a while), and didn’t find the ticks that customarily would grab on clothing and socks.
CLA, in my humble opinion, a cold winter may or may not be the ticket.
This past winter was very cold and long here. My kids played ice hockey on our little farm pond for quite awhile this year which is rare. You usually get a few days here and there of hockey but this winter we were on the pond al the time.
And guess what. Start of May the ticks were off the charts. Both my dogs got ehrlichiosis at the end of May.
I do agree the Midwest had harsher winters years ago. In the late 70s/early 80s in the burbs of Chicago it was like living in Manitoba during winter. That changed in the late 80s through 2007 when I moved.
I actually don’t know what they are considered; if they are red meat that would be impacted by this life would suck.
I’d probably just accept the hospital visits as the “dessert course”. Maybe someone will devise something like an Epi-Pen so we could live some semblance of a normal life...
are nematodes harmful to chickens and dogs?
Kearny, don’t know if it’s true, but some tick experts are starting to wonder if mosquitos are passing on lyme and/or other tick like diseases.
Here is a great article for those that live in the South and Midwest regarding tick disease.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/14-southern-gothic
First it was sea food, then peanuts and honey, next was dairy followed by wheat and all other carbs, the incredible edible egg is bad on every other Tuesday or some such hooey, then msg ladden Chinese food and Monsanto corn, recently too much soy is bad, bacon will bring on a heart attack, salt and energy drinks will kill, sugar will send you into a coma and it’s substitutes will give you cancer, and mangoes and strawberries will cause oozing rashes, and now it’s beef if you get bitten by a mosquito (if you survive being bitten by a mosquito that also gives you chik-v virus). All that is left is iceburg lettuce - uh, no, that’s tainted with e. coli from illegal pickers not washing their hands. While you’re starving, don’t even think about sneaking into the made in China dog food. Bottom line, you’re going to die. No way around it.
Nope, I heard a doctor on the news this morning say that pork is included in the allergic reaction. So no steak, burgers, bacon, ham, pork chops, pork roast. I wouldn't want to go on, lol.
If he does that anywhere near me, the firearms come out, LOL.
That thought is terrifying; they are much harder to protect against than ticks. Even the diseases they are known to transmit are bad enough...
I have never read anything that says the varieties you use on grubs, ticks, and fleas do anything but infect the bugs.
http://www.gardeninsects.com/beneficialNematodes.asp
“Beneficial Nematodes naturally occur in soil and are used to control soil pest insects and whenever larvae or grubs are present. Like all of our products, it will not expose humans or animals to any health or environmental risks. Beneficial nematodes only attack soil dwelling insects and leave plants and earthworms alone..... Beneficial nematodes are a totally safe biological control in pest insects. The Beneficial nematodes are so safe the EPA has waived the registration requirements for application.”
Insect Parasitic Nematodes - Colorado State Un...
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05573.html
“Safety and Environmental Concerns. Insect parasitic nematodes do not appear to have any significant harmful effects on other beneficial organisms or people.”
A search for nematodes will bring up lots of sources.
You can also use them to control things like flies in manure piles, cutworms in the garden, codling moths in an orchard.
I grew up outside in Il. I remember someone else at scout camp in WI that had a tick and remember checking for leeches after swimming. I never had a chigger bite until I moved to the KC area. (I still have never seen one!)
http://www.aljohnsons.com/about-us/
http://www.aljohnsons.com/goat-cam/
(Its getting dark. The goats are not on the roof!)
Hi, Pete! Super ‘Sturgeon’ Moon tonight! Shore is purdy viewed from up here in ‘Scony!
First Packer Pre-Season Game tonight; glad to have my ‘boys’ back home again. :)
Never had a chigger bite. Never had a leach, other than the Ex-husband, LOL!
Been bit by a tick ‘er two, but no lasting problems. Had a red-meat hamburger from our own steer for dinner tonight.
Life Is Good! :)
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