How Can a Tick Bite Make You Allergic to Red Meat?

[@lizardchase2296]

Got bit ~13 years ago. For a while I couldn’t eat pork either but that reversed after a couple of years. I have to eat red meat very very sparingly, and even then within a few hours I’m rolling on the floor in severe pain. I still try it from time to time, hoping that exposure will allow me to enjoy it again. Thanks for covering this topic!

[@missionpossible00]

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[@indigomarine91]

​@missionpossible00 he violated his parole by getting too close to the school up the street, he's my neighbor.

[@Oaky]

Yes - My husband got a pork & beef allergy. He recovered 4-5 years later

[@familywilliams4058]

Wait, only reported a decade ago? Odd, my uncle was bitten by a tick and became allergic to red meat at least 25 years ago. It's one of the reasons he became a pescatarian. I remember him telling me about it when I was a kid.

[@PlanckRelic]

He means reported in a study in a scientific journal. That first study wouldn't have happened if there wasn't some previously existing anecdotal evidence. iirc the study in particular showed that alpha-gal was causing the allergy and came from tick bites.

[@familywilliams4058]

@@PlanckRelic Yeah, I totally get that, but I'm surprised that there wasn't earlier research.

[@frankjeager9043]

They lie about everything. Everything

[@Ntakhar12]

The best is the Radiolab podcast episode of this! Alpha Gal!

[@alarcon99]

Same!

[@mmps18]

The Radiolab episode about Alpha-gal is so fascinating!!?

[@mtcynthus]

Now I feel itchy.

[@loftyradish6972]

One of my patients had this, poor thing was iron deficient too and her Dr didn't believe her for a while, but she ended up in the ICU from her meat allergy when a housemate accidentally contaminated her food.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Surgeon Admiral Sam is surely the bossest of boss; supporting this show for so long.

[@TheKillerPupa]

I got a tick-borne illness. Ended up in the hospital for a week with major heart swelling to where I was struggling to breathe. Doctors called it lyme but they weren't super sure which tick-borne illness it was. Apparently there are a lot and they are hard to test for because they aren't super well understood. I am allergic to red meat now, so presumably it was not lyme. Just because you got bitten by a lonestar tick doesn't mean you're out of the woods in terms of immediate sickness.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

My friend got multiple allergies after getting Lyme's disease. For awhile he couldn't eat red meat on how bad he reacted to it

[@AustinAto]

I guy I know back in my Scottish home town got this. No red meat. Took ages to diagnose it, it some wonderfully inquisitive Dr that considered it might be from a tick.

[@rosieE121]

I have alpha gal syndrome and have a bad reaction to just smelling fumes from cooking of meat.

[@emilykicielinski5521]

So does my husband. Even the smell of cheese causes a reaction in him. 🙁

[@SandTiger42]

Yep. Happened to me in Japan about 10 years ago. Pork and Chicken only for a long while. Mostly recovered, but I still don't eat steaks. A burger now and then only.

[@love196627]

Can you do a video on fragrance allergies and sensitivies?

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

I was diagnosed about four weeks ago. I had spent several months, not feeling very good, all nonspecific except most of it was related to my stomach and bowels. For three months, I struggled, unable to really eat without getting sick to my stomach.. moving around I’d get nauseous and throw up or threatened to throw up. at my age, it is imperative that I keep active. It has been like night and day. I feel so much better now but, I’m still having a great dealer problem eating. It seems that my taste sensitivity has increased. I had been until I had cancer, it never came back completely. All the foods I love I cannot eat.

[@KoolT]

Eat chicken and fish some people recover with a few year's

[@AceofDlamonds]

People i think have a hard time grasping how chemical/biological we are. It seems weird that an arthropod bite could induce this but it's just another chemical process that happens to prime the immune system.

[@purplealice]

My daughter-in-law had ovarian cancer, and the chemo she was treated with triggered the same allergy to red meats. She has to limit her protein intake to poultry, fish, and tofu.

[@therabbithat]

Red meat is massively subsidized, if you saw how much you were really paying for it, you would feel that it isn't actually worth that and should only be consumed occasionally as a treat. There are far more cost-effective and environmentally friendly sources of protein, iron, and zinc. I'm glad we subsidise food, but red meat is insanely expensive, it's like subsidizing saffron

[@fiecylick3981]

Can you do a video on recent vaccines been causing this allergy to be placed?

[@johne.nobody2946]

I have this. Now I’m a vegetarian and it’s not as bad, but still…

[@Psychol-Snooper]

I've killed 19 deer ticks this spring. I have no mercy for them.

[@PhanthomKnight9]

The vegans have launched their first attack

[@jamesguralski5156]

Our daughter get sick right away! Now she can eat the food she loves!

[@Jakewubadub]

I love meat but i am terrified of prion diseases so if this tick bit me and gave me this allergy i would feel more positive about life because hopefully i wont get CJD or CWD

[@mrs.happydog584]

It’s. it JUST red meat. It’s mammal & carrageenan. Any Anyphylaxus rash

[@sarahjo9975]

At least there's still Beyond and Impossible Burgers for anyone who wants a good meat alternative. Lots of veggie products are getting pretty close. Enough to help satisfy occasional cravings anyway.

[@rosieE121]

I prefer Beyond Meat

[@LauraRossflyswatter]

As a vegan, I could have Alpha-gal and never know it!

[@joshrobles6262]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@cinnamon8884]

same lol

[@CaptainPIanet]

I was thinking it’d be a great motivation and mechanism for an eco-terrorist in a movie lol

[@ruddthreetrees1104]

@@CaptainPIanet what the WEF you mean?

[@zaccknight8781]

@@CaptainPIanet they already talking about using it intentionally to help climate change

[@missionpossible00]

My mom has this

[@DD-gz9ut]

In “countries” like Europe and Asia. I wonder what their national capitals are…

[@takakonobe]

Sure ticks

[@PhanthomKnight9]

Nah man, i will still eat that pig stake

[@johnharvey5412]

"we've stood our ground on that one for a while" What a weird hill to die (of heart disease and colon cancer) on.

[@Silverizael]

You mean the hill of what the actual science says? Since it seems you're trying to make a medical/health argument and Healthcare Triage has directly gone over the actual published studies on the subject.

[@KoolT]

My inlaw has this now rash bad

[@ammalyrical5646]

Europe and Asia aren't countries, maybe just rephrase a little bit next time. Adding in the words countries in between the words like and Europe would've been enough. On the topic. Maybe I should do that master's degree about Food and Nutrition. I'd like to do some microbiome research. I know diet has an impact on the microbiome of the gut but that's not very specific knowledge and I feel like it was known 20 years ago (at least to some extent). I've been so many things that make me curious about this stuff lately (including the degree program itself).

[@dtaylor4200]

How on Earth could a healthcare professional say there’s nothing wrong with red meat consumption? Excessive cholesterol, saturated fat, antibiotic resistance, insanely cruel and unsustainable factory farming, farm pollution that disproportionately affects people of color, deforestation, and tremendous methane production…the health effects are bad enough but the bigger picture is a nightmare. And you endorse it.

[@clarkkentglasses6443]

behold!!! we have conducted an epidemiological study and controlled for 97 dimensions... fear our competence of the scientific method

[@mattwodziak1750]

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[@ruddthreetrees1104]

because there isn't. The cholesterol and sat fat nonsense has been debunked endlessly now for years. The other things you list can be addressed but are out of a dr's purview. I don't go to the Dr to be told i shouldn't eat something because blah blah people of colour.

[@odizzido]

I wonder what kind of visa you need to visit the country of asia? I bugged americans about this when I was in japan too. When the topic of where we were from came up and they said they're from america I would say me too. Then when they identified their state or city I would say I am from canada. Yes, america is a continent(s) that includes many countries.

[@LightPink]

Lol! ur so sneaky and quirky 🤪

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

Whether 'America' by itself means the continent or the country is linguistically contentious and depends on the context and language. In English, there is no other adjectival form for person or attribute of the United States of America (i.e. 'United Statesian' is not a word) - in most contexts 'American' without any further specification (e.g. 'North American' or 'Latin American') will be taken to mean the US, whether other people from the Americas like it or not. In Spanish there is an alternative, but that's a different language and plenty of places have different names in different languages.

[@rjclue2630]

Thank you tick 🙏❤