red meat allergy
Alpha-gal immune reaction
Red meat allergy is an immune reaction to proteins found in mammalian meat—beef, pork, lamb, venison.
The most common form, alpha-gal syndrome, develops after tick bites sensitize people to a sugar molecule in red meat.
Symptoms appear hours after eating, unlike most food allergies: She developed a red meat allergy after camping in tick country.
- lone star tickParasitic arachnid causing meat sensitivity
- tickParasitic eight-legged pest
- beefBovine meat for eating
- porkPig as food
- lambJuvenile sheep
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Immune reaction to mollusks/crustaceans
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