The tick-borne disease has not caused any deaths, health officials say, but people with alpha-gal syndrome have described it as bewildering and terrifying.
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. have become allergic to red meat since 2010 because of a, according to a government report released Thursday. But health officials believe many more have the problem and don't know it.
"I never connected it with any food because it was hours after eating," said one patient, Bernadine Heller-Greenman.The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals — or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.meat from mammals — and in tick spit.
One of the studies released Thursday examined 2017-2022 test results from the main U.S. commercial lab looking for alpha-gal antibodies. They noted the number of people testing positive rose from about 13,000 in 2017 to 19,000 in 2022. Some patients have only stomach symptoms, and the American Gastroenterological Association says people with unexplained diarrhea, nausea and abdominal pain should be tested for the syndrome.
Female soft tick laying a batch of eggs, a carrier of the Lyme disease, 1975. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control . One of his patients is Heller-Greenman, a 78-year-old New York art historian who spends summers on Martha's Vineyard. She has grown accustomed to getting bitten by ticks on the island and said she has had Lyme disease four times.
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