“Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb.”
“Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb.”
My step-dad got bit by one of these. He can only eat chicken now and it sucks.
He can’t eat rice or beans or fruits or veggies?!?
It’s so scary that a bite from something the size of a pea can drastically change your life… Does he remember when being bitten and how long it took him to start having side effects?
huh. i know a dude who got bitten by one and he’s had to swear off all meat products, even poultry and fish. he was in cooking school learning vegan cookery when i met him.
WUUUUUT???!
Yeah, it’s becoming more common as the carrier ticks are able to expand due to climate change and more people are outdoors. There isn’t a good solution/treatment yet either, and it effects people differently. For some it’s a 3 month allergy, for many, it’s permanent.
I would kill myself if I couldn’t eat meat anymore, that or opt for a feeding tube and using up my insurance in a psych ward.
just not red meat.
Stay inside or douse yourself with cancer chemical bug spray
Or deet
Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen
almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about “carcinogens” and youll be so much happier
100% better off not worrying what causes cancer BUT that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stop try to actively prevent the odds of it happening like wearing sunscreen, using tick protection OFF Bug Spray (has 25% Deet) or grilling your food on a propane grill.
Of course the obvious not smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and avoiding ultra proccessed foods but in the US there’s at least one of the three in use at all times so… fart noise
Yes it does. But thats also a strawman used by large corpos to pour Roundup into our groundwater. Well guess what, we are paying for it now.
sources?
you are an unhelpful walrus. do better my guy
they are literally asking for more information. you are being cagey and patronizing.
do better
Sure, and the fish as well while the frogs turn gay
Right up until the cancer gets you anyway.