Who knew? Tick Bites can make you allergic to red meat?
@JamesHxstatic (29256)
Eugene, Oregon
April 2, 2023 7:24pm CST
Imagine getting bitten by a tick or ticks, and then having a good hamburger meal later and waking up in a lot of pain with nausea. Sounds like food poisoning, but it's probably that tick bite.
It's called alpha-gal syndrome but doesn't affect only "gals." Most cases are caused by "Lone Star" ticks, but it's not just in Texas.
Ticks aren't prevalent in my area, but if they were, I would take every precaution to avoid them.
Have you ever had a Tick bite?
Patients who have digestive symptoms only after eating red meat may have developed an allergy caused by ticks. Previously, doctors looked for symptoms such as rashes, hives and breathing troubles.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
3 Apr 23
I often got ticks when I was a kid, playing with our outside dogs and riding our horses around the countryside. I haven't had one since I was in my mid-20s, though. (Maybe 35 years ago.)
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
3 Apr 23
@JamesHxstatic I was always too busy to take Pretty out into the woods to show her what that's like. The few times we went "camping", I drove somewhere and we slept in the back of our hatchback cars and looked at the clouds and stars until we fell asleep.
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@celticeagle (159222)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Apr 23
Oh my goodness. This sure brings back memories. When I was a small child and living at my grandmother's I got a tick bite in a very private area. How I don't know. My mom and grandmother poured coal oil over the area and used tweezers to get rid of the tick. It hurt so badly. Ugh!
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@celticeagle (159222)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Apr 23
@JamesHxstatic .........That's what they used back then. This was late fifties.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Apr 23
Oh, I can imagine how awful that was! Coal oil too, of all things.
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I have never heard of that . . . oh gosh I can't imagine having to eliminate red meat from my diet for good. They say to watch out for ticks when we hike, but I've never encountered one - I don't think 
.@much2say (53954)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Apr 23
@JamesHxstatic Maybe so. I guess when a tick bites, it sticks to you . . . never had anything like that happen here.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Apr 23
Seems like they are more common back east maybe.
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@LadyDuck (458534)
• Switzerland
4 Apr 23
@JamesHxstatic - I am careful when I walk in the grass, but you never know.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Apr 23
I never have either, I'm glad to say.
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@HomewardBound (551)
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4 Apr 23
Thanks for clueing me in, I had no idea. We have ticks here but I don’t think I’ve ever actually been bitten.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 Apr 23
That's a good thing. They are nasty little critters.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
3 Apr 23
No tick bites here and I'm glad I don't have to deal with these nasty critters.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Apr 23
None in my area of the US either that I know of.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
3 Apr 23
The only time we saw ticks was when we had dogs but we got rid of them. We never got bitten
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@RebeccasFarm (86772)
• United States
3 Apr 23
I can believe that alright.
Once you have a foreign substance enter your body, you can develop all sorts of terrible side effects.
Just like covid did to people..
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to be allergy to red meat. 
@jstory07 (134444)
• Roseburg, Oregon
5 Apr 23
@JamesHxstatic I love bacon. Got to have bacon.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 Apr 23
@jstory07 I stopped eating it several years ago, too many chemicals in it.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 Apr 23
It would be hard, bacon & other pork too.
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@RasmaSandra (73538)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Apr 23
Never had a tick bite and thanks for this information, I don't even know were there are ticks in Florida,
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 Apr 23
I didn't know there were so many in California.
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Apr 23
Same here. I ran around out in the pastures of west Texas as a kid. I guess it was too dry & hot for ticks there.
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