Haahahahaha Ticks have started promoting veganism ;) :P hahaha So far, they’ve proven that lone star ticks, a common species in the Southeast, can trigger the allergy, but they suspect other species of ticks can as well. The same allergy has been observed in Australia, for instance, where there are no lone star ticks to spread it. ....they believe that something in some ticks’ saliva stimulates the human immune system to produce antibodies to a sugar present in mammalian meat, though not poultry and fish, called galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal for short). Thanks to a single nip from Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, I was now violently allergic to meat. To date, alpha-gal allergy is the only known case of a sugar-triggered allergy. “We think it has to do with the fat,” he says, “because…the fat takes anywhere from three to five hours to hit the bloodstream.” Add to that the anecdotal evidence that some patients can tolerate lean meats and others get sick from eating pork rinds (which, oddly enough, don’t contain any actual meat at all, only fat) I’ve now spent more than a year trying to avoid beef and pork, though here in the South, bacon seems to constantly sneak its way into places it doesn’t belong (a dish of Brussels sprouts being my most memorable example). discovermagazine/2012/jul-aug/09-how-a-tick-bite-made-me-allergic-to-meat
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:17:29 +0000
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