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I thought I kept getting food poisoning. It turned out, a tick bite changed how my body reacts to red meat and pork.
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A personal account of living with alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergic condition that prevents consumption of red meat and pork, which the author initially mistook for recurring food poisoning.
I thought I kept getting food poisoning. It turned out, a tick bite changed how my body reacts to red meat and pork.
The author has been living with alpha-gal syndrome for 18 months. The condition, usually caused by a tick bite, prevents him from being able to eat pork and red meat.
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I was having frequent bouts of what I thought was food poisoning.
A blood test revealed that I had alpha-gal syndrome, which causes an allergic reaction to meat.
The condition, often caused by a tick bite, has caused me to change my routines drastically.
When I broke out in hives on a Friday afternoon, I
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