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MadAhab
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MadAhab
5y ago
I got the sense they saw Google beating Sun/Java in the supreme court and said "We'll be fine, lets move the release up"
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MadAhab
5y ago
This, Radon tests are cheap. Get one if you have a basement or exposed dirt crawl space under your main living/sleep spaces.
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MadAhab
5y ago
You get used to diet modifications after a while, took me a year at least before I stopped 'mourning' my old diet so to speak. There's plenty of other delicious foods out there and it may go away eventually. There's ple
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MadAhab
5y ago
Kinda in this case yes? Mammal meat contains alpha gal technically, "red meat" is just used to explain this allergy a little less pedantically.
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MadAhab
5y ago
Tick saliva is meant to trick your body into not identifying it as a foreign object sucking your blood. So saliva, alpha-gal, and who knows what else is injected during the tick's feeding and that mixture is different than just eating
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MadAhab
5y ago
That sounds like a very extreme sensitivity to another food or maybe the timing was just coincidental and it was something they ate earlier. My and most people's alpha gal response is usually delayed by hours, supposedly due to food ha
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MadAhab
5y ago
Sorry your reactions are digestive :( I feel lucky to have skin hives only in response to this - worst being lips and tongue occasionally. Ask your doctors to become educated on it, though I'm not sure it'll do much good to you it
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MadAhab
5y ago
Mine was from one bite, it depends on the tick and maybe the person too. Some people get bit many times a year and don't get AGS or other tick borne illnesses. They're just lucky I guess
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MadAhab
5y ago
In response to the pharmacy link: I suffer from alpha-gal allergy and researched mRNA vaccine ingredients prior to getting the Moderna vaccine. I was perfectly fine. There's also a /r/alphagal reddit thread discussing the vac
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MadAhab
5y ago
Most anecdotes I read said the 8-15 year (I'm year 9) scale for the allergy to fade if at all, I don't recall what they said they had for reactions/accidental allergen dosages during their years though. Accidental allergen ex
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MadAhab
5y ago
Alpha-gal light sufferer here - light because my reactions are usually somewhat light hives, however I also have practiced avoidance nearly perfectly for years. I'll try to answer your questions, but I'm not a medical professional