Hello Sean,
On (20 Jan 19) Sean Dennis wrote to JIM WELLER...
That's certainly an unusual allergy or food sensitivity.
I'd have to look it up for details but evidently if one is bitten by a particular type of tick, one becomes allergic to certain proteins in
beef and cannot eat it.
It is actually an allergy to a sugar found in mammilian red meat (beef,
pork, lamb, deer, elk, moose, etc). That sugar is alpha-gal which is
found in meat but not in humans according to WebMD. When a lone star
tick which carries the alpha-gal sugar bites a person, this sugar is transferred into the blood stream of the person bitten. The body
produces antibodies to fight the sugar. The person is now sensitized so
the next time he/she eats red meat, the body attacks the alpha-gal sugar
in an allergic reaction. This reaction can occur up to eight hours after
the person eats. See
https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140813
/tick-bites-red-meat-allergy
I know someone who has this allergy. It is really rough on him because
he also has kidney damage from being stationed at Camp LeJeune and
drinking water tainted with industrial solvents so his diet is extremely restricted.
Regards,
Stephen
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