Tick Bites

[Teacher Terry]

Dog is now gone. BTW.. You are not the only one on this site where cost is not a factor anymore. Quite arrogant of you to assume otherwise.

Cost is really a factor for me since my divorce but I choose to have 2 dogs which means I must pay what it costs to keep them alive and safe. I have cut many things out of my life to make this happen. I owe it to them for all that they give me.

[Tybee]

The way I heard it is that some people become allergic to red meat??

My husband has that from a tick bite, the alpha gal. It's actually mammalian protein, not just red meat.

[Tybee]

Someone’s husband here has that disease. Maybe tybee‘s husband?

Yes, that's him.

[Tybee]

When my daughter was 3 years old, she yelled for me to help her get dressed. I asked, "Why can't you dress yourself?" She calmly said "Because I can't walk."

Before we rushed her to the doctor I brushed her hair, and in doing so, I found a tick embedded in her scalp. DH pulled it out and we put it in a little tube of some kind and took it with us to the doctor. He said the tick had nothing to do with the paralysis which had overtaken everything from her waist down and he sent her to a pediatric neurologist at the hospital. Ultimately, they determined it was tick paralysis, which was such a rare condition that the neurologist had only seen it once before on an island somewhere.

With the tick gone, the condition reversed itself and she was walking again within 24 hours, but the scariest thing was, if I hadn't put her hair in a pony tail that morning, eventually the paralysis would have seized up her organs and killed her.

Absolutely terrifying, poor little girl!

[JaneV2.0]

My husband has that from a tick bite, the alpha gal. It's actually mammalian protein, not just red meat.

Can he eat mammalian meat now?

[Tybee]

Can he eat mammalian meat now?

No. When it first showed up and we did not know what it was, he could eat a hamburger and then wake up with hives a few hours later. So at that time, he'd take a benadryl and he was fine. I figured it out before the doctor, because I read about the tick/red meat allergy thing really early on somehow, and decided that's what he had. So he avoided meat but if he did eat something, for about a year it was just hives and benadryl. Then one day he decided to risk half a burger and went into full anaphylaxis.

At that time the er doc confirmed that was what it was.
So yeah, he stays far away from meat now.

[Teacher Terry]

That’s really awful Tybee. Glad ticks are rare here. Plus I don’t hike in the mountains anymore where you are more likely to get them.

[iris lilies]

Mammalian protein. That means eggs are taboo as well?

[JaneV2.0]

Mammalian protein. That means eggs are taboo as well?

Birds and associated products are OK.

[iris lilies]

Birds and associated products are OK.

Oh, doh. I knew that! Birds are avians.