Ticks and Meat

[Dakota]

I remember reading about this here for the 1st time on this board but I see it has now made the headlines over at wtop.

http://wtop.com/267/3677547/Surge-of-sudden-meat-allergies-caused-by-US-ticks

 

[jazz lady]

That would be me. Glad to see more awareness of this condition and I can see it's becoming more widespread unfortunately.

I had it, it faded over time and was no longer a problem, and was reinfected with another tick bite this spring, so I'm been off of ingesting red meat (AKA any protein that comes from an animal with a hoof) since then. I've taken a couple of small bites of pork and beef in the last few weeks with no reaction, so I'm hoping it's gone again.

 

[Dakota]

That would be me. Glad to see more awareness of this condition and I can see it's becoming more widespread unfortunately.

I had it, it faded over time and was no longer a problem, and was reinfected with another tick bite this spring, so I'm been off of ingesting red meat (AKA any protein that comes from an animal with a hoof) since then. I've taken a couple of small bites of pork and beef in the last few weeks with no reaction, so I'm hoping it's gone again.

When you stated on here that you had this condition, I learned about something I had never heard of before... and since that time, I know of a second person to be suffering from this.

Very scary. I am glad to see it get some media attention. We are woodsy people at my house and had any one of us suffered an allergic reaction, I would have never known to suspect a tick bite as the root cause.

 

[jazz lady]

When you stated on here that you had this condition, I learned about something I had never heard of before... and since that time, I know of a second person to be suffering from this.

I am fortunate in my reaction just turns into a bad case of hives. Others, like the article mentioned, have a full-blown attack where their lips swell and airway starts constricting.

Very scary. I am glad to see it get some media attention. We are woodsy people at my house and had any one of us suffered an allergic reaction, I would have never known to suspect a tick bite as the root cause.

I had no idea until Dye Tyed saw an article and showed it to me, which described EXACTLY what I was going through. And it is truly different than most allergic reactions in that it takes HOURS to appear after ingesting red meat.

And the ironic thing is I got the last tick bite at work.