Tick borne disease

[3Nails4Given]

Tick borne diseases on increase, there has been an increase in our area of Alpha gal syndrome. This illness makes those infected allergic to red meat.

https://www.vox.com/health/2023/7/28/23811708/this-ticks-spit-can-make-you-allergic-to-meatThis tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

 

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CDC warns life-threatening food allergy is impacting thousands, many doctors unaware

CDC warns life-threatening food allergy is impacting thousands, many doctors unaware From FoxNews: A little-known, life-threatening food allergy that is triggered by a tick bite could be affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

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[Everlasting Life]

Good to know....good grief! Now, I know that TT would really have a hard time with this, somehow I suspect he'd find his Alaskan tough way to overcome and still wolf down those hamburgers.


From what I understand of this, there's a bacteria in these little buggers that begin to multiply in one's body. If one can get to antibiotics quickly after being bitten then they can stave off this stuff. And even if it's cropped up unbeknownst there are some anti-bacterial regiments a doctor out of Seattle has successfully developed. I don't know if this would work for this new issue.

I thought this was interesting from the OP article:

“Alpha-gal certainly in some of our patients can wane over time … for people who continue to get more tick bites it’s less likely to go away,” said Wilson. “For people who change their habits and do things to be more proactive about avoiding ticks, it’s more likely to go away over time.”

This makes me wonder if treatment for toxins might be a good answer. That would be great if activated charcoal could be helpful!

 

[3Nails4Given]

Good to know....good grief! Now, I know that TT would really have a hard time with this, somehow I suspect he'd find his Alaskan tough way to overcome and still wolf down those hamburgers.


From what I understand of this, there's a bacteria in these little buggers that begin to multiply in one's body. If one can get to antibiotics quickly after being bitten then they can stave off this stuff. And even if it's cropped up unbeknownst there are some anti-bacterial regiments a doctor out of Seattle has successfully developed. I don't know if this would work for this new issue.

I thought this was interesting from the OP article:

“Alpha-gal certainly in some of our patients can wane over time … for people who continue to get more tick bites it’s less likely to go away,” said Wilson. “For people who change their habits and do things to be more proactive about avoiding ticks, it’s more likely to go away over time.”

This makes me wonder if treatment for toxins might be a good answer. That would be great if activated charcoal could be helpful!

There is a guy locally on a hunting forum that detailed his battle with this. He almost died before the doctors figured out what he had.

He basically discovered every time he ate red meat he’d get deathly sick. He was a avid deer hunter plus his work kept him outside in wooded areas.

The doctors discovered his case was so bad because of multiple tick bites.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Now, I know that TT would really have a hard time with this, somehow I suspect he'd find his Alaskan tough way to overcome and still wolf down those hamburgers.

That would be horrible for me to become an alpha-gal and not be able to eat red meat... guess I'd have to become best friends with chickens... We do have some kind of disease carrying ticks in Wyoming but I don't think alpha-gal is one of the diseases you can get from them.