tim-from-pa
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I've been asked to make a thread on this topic, as some people get bitten by this tick and then develop red meat allergies. Sometimes it passes. Not everyone who is bitten by this tick develops it, but rather a minority. The reason for the allergy is the alpha-gal carbohydrate in the tick bite that humans on their own do not produce. When the immune system reacts to that bite that introduces that carbohydrate, it then reacts to the alpha-gal in red meats and causes an allergic reaction. The extreme reaction reminds me of COVID and the role vitamin D plays in that. The issue is not the alpha-gal carbohydrate (or COVID), but the extreme immune reaction people get to it that is so dangerous. Like all allergies, an abnormal immune response may be indicative of a problem, and the role of vitamin D suppresses that, so that most allergies can be alleviated this way. That all said, that is my theory. I have two links. The first one explains the Tick Bite allergy. The second one is the link of vitamin D and food allergies. I cannot find an article on alpha-gal and vitamin D, but I did find research regarding food allergies and vitamin D (similar). Why vitamin D? Not really a vitamin as much as it acts as a hormone. But it is made in your body mostly by sunlight. Ya know? The sun? That yellow orb we've been warned to avoid at all costs and told to slather on the sunscreen lest we shrivel up and turn into skeletons like Dracula or something? Yes, that sun. We need far more of it. And in the winter the vitamin-D fish oils and supplements.
Lone Star Tick
Food allergies and vitamin D
Lone Star Tick
Food allergies and vitamin D