How a Tick Bite Made Me Allergic to Meat

[LandSailor]

Just thought Id post this link...apparently tick bites can make you allergic to meat.

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-au ... ic-to-meat

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[Miyata610]

A better article on the same topic, but relevant to Sydneysiders.....

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2009/190 ... rgy-humans

[sailfish]

Not a Tick but shows how easy it can happen.

One day I came into work early as usual and there was an odd smell but didn’t seem too much of a problem, not unusual from the reprographics area so we all just got on with it. After maybe a half hour or so I started to get hives but no one else did. I decided to go home sick to deal with it. Next day I learned there had been a transformer fluid leak (PCB). Everyone had been evacuated and taken to hospital and checked over. For me though, nothing was offered or done at all ever. Within a day or 2 I developed chronic hay fever. Yep 24/7 all year, allergic to practically everything. For ages I could only sleep sitting up in a chair all night every night (impossible to sleep lying down). No compo, no nothing, apparently association with the event at work could not be proved so I just had to keep working dripping everywhere. It did gradually taper off over the next 20 + years or so with constant preventer medication and bouts of bronchitis from the reaction products etc. I have been fairly clear now for about a 2 months since getting onto Magnesium supplement.


Regards,
Ken