Anyone ever heard of this? My wife has been diagnosed with it.
“Alpha-gal syndrome is a type of food allergy. It makes people allergic to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition usually begins with the bite of the Lone Star tick. The bite transfers a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the body. In some people, this triggers a reaction from the body's defenses, also called the immune system. It causes mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb. It also can cause reactions to other foods that come from mammals, such as dairy products or gelatins.”
I get to eat a lot of chicken and fish now. She’s allergic to beef, pork and lamb. She’ll break out in hives a couple of hours after she eats some, typically in the middle of the night. It could go away if she’s not bitten again by a tick carrying it… don’t know how long that might take.
