“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.”
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- BeUnique@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
Yeah, a lot of people are learning about this the hard way and it appears to only be getting worse! The tick population has seen a huge “uptick” in recent years!
- epicshepich@programming.devEnglish4 hours
My wife loves beef but if she ever stopped eating it, I would call her my Alpha Gal
7 hoursMy step-dad got bit by one of these. He can only eat chicken now and it sucks.
- BeUnique@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
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?
- GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
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.
- 2 hours
Stay inside or douse yourself with cancer chemical bug spray
Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen
almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about “carcinogens” and youll be so much happier
- manualoverride@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Somewhere there is a vegan breeding these ticks and laughing maniacally.
- 6 hours
They wouldnt be too smart if they were, because it’s not a meat allergy, it’s an alpha -galactose allergy, which is a sugar present in most mammals that people eat, but also many other foods, like carageenan, which is in many vegan products and medicine.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Nothing our little genetic engineering lab can’t fix, crispr is so cheap this days. Ugh, their lab I mean, their hypothetical lab.
A NJ man died from it the end of last year. https://apnews.com/article/ticks-alphagal-death-meat-allergy-0db604bb7419a3b3b1b7c2639e40af1f
- 3 hours
Go figure that a tick with a name reminiscent of Texas would make you unable to enjoy a steak.
- GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Well, it’s expanding its reach because of climate change. Same with armadillos.
- 4 hours
"Theirs only one man who would DARE give me the rasberry. LONE STAR"
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
Do people on the east coast just not care about the diseases ticks carry? I feel like nobody is doing anything about ticks or the diseases. Back in the 80s they used to fly planes a few hundred feet over my house and open the back bay where a cloud of deet would come come pouring out. We’d stand out on the porch and watch and run inside before the cloud hit the ground. They did all that for mosquitoes.
- GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
They care, but there isn’t a ‘lot’ that can be done. These ticks range is expanding due to climate change, and even with proper precautions (sprays, clothing, monitoring) it still can happen. Lyme disease is a big thing in on the east coast, so they do know about ticks.
- Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Turns out that horrific for the environment and it’s easier to just tell people to stop killing opossums.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish3 hours
Opossoms don’t really eat many ticks. The methodology of that study was flawed because they only fed them ticks.
- Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
They are predators of mosquitoes and ticks, they aren’t supersoldiers of pest control like the study implies they are however a limiter in the ecosystem along with other animals people tend to kill and not think much about. It’s cheaper and easier to educate about not killing x than to eradicate a species and eat the consequences.
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
Well I used that as an example of the effort expensed not that it was a good solution. Similar to how opossums aren’t a solution. It’s been mentioned a number of times now they don’t help as much as first thought. Sounds like chickens or guinea fowl are better
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
Would be a shame if this ended up in the water supply
It certainly would. It’s not a meat allergy, it’s an alpha-galactose allergy. Alpha-gal is present in all foods and ingredients made from beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, and other mammal sources, including gelatin and milk. Certain seaweeds also contain alpha-gal, along with most Vegan product alternatives. Alpha-gal is found worldwide among the inactive ingredients and materials of medications and healthcare products, and it is generally not required to be labelled.
Based on the snarky tone, I have to assume you’re one of the vocal vegans that people hate because of the superiority complex that exudes from even simple comments like this. You should probably do a basic amount of research before commenting and proving you haven’t done any.
- naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 hours
You read the parent comment as completely serious and used it to rail against an assumed or imagined vegan boogeyman. Sounds tongue in cheek to me. I’m still waiting to see this “obnoxious vegan” everyone’s talking about. I know they exist, but all I see are angry meat eaters complaining about them
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Holy hell, another one? I just found one of these creatures yesterday. My comments still reek of the responses to them.
- naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
What a wild way to interact with people… have a nice day
e: i read this as calling me a creature. after reading some of your comments i think i missed
- realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish6 hours
You should probably do a basic amount of research
On lemmy? Lmaooo
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
That’s some pretty terrible assumption skills you got there, mate. I’ve seen stormtroopers with better precision than you.
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
Terrible thought is my middle name. Abbadon “terrible thought” Johnson
