{"id":1174,"date":"2022-04-07T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:24:41","slug":"alpha-gal-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Alpha-gal Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several years ago, this newsletter discussed a new form of anaphylaxis due to tick bites.&nbsp; The syndrome is peculiar in several ways.&nbsp; Most importantly the anaphylaxis is delayed from the exposure by several hours.&nbsp; Also, it occurs after eating mammalian meat such as beef and pork.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alpha-gal is a glycoprotein that is found in mammalian meats.&nbsp; The patient becomes sensitized to the alpha-gal from a tick bite because the ticks secrete alpha-gal in their saliva when they bite humans.&nbsp; In order to diagnose the condition, the patient needs to be tested for alpha-gal.&nbsp; They do not show a positive response to the standard allergy tests for beef, pork, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new twist is that certain round worms, such as Ascaris lumbricoides also contain alpha-gal and infestation with these worms can lead to the same syndrome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, this newsletter discussed a new form of anaphylaxis due to tick bites.&nbsp; The syndrome is peculiar in several ways.&nbsp; Most importantly the anaphylaxis is delayed from the exposure by several hours.&nbsp; Also, it occurs after eating mammalian meat such as beef and pork.&nbsp; Alpha-gal is a glycoprotein that is found in mammalian meats.&nbsp; The patient becomes sensitized to the alpha-gal from a tick bite because the ticks secrete alpha-gal in their saliva when they bite humans.&nbsp; In&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1174\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[565,566],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alpha-gal","tag-tick-bite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}