I had to rush to the restroom," Rayborn recalls. "I woke up in the middle of the night with severe pain and nausea. "I figured it was food-poisoning," Rayborn recalls thinking after his first alpha-gal attack in the fall of 2019. That's exactly what happened to Randy Rayborn, 72, who lives in a rural community in Caswell County, North Carolina. Here's a guide to identifying them and avoiding bites She has diagnosed AGS in people who experience abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting about 2 to 6 hours after eating red meat. McGill has co-authored new guidance for the American Gastroenterological Association to raise awareness about the GI-only onset.
McGill says some alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS, patients feel sick to their stomachs after they eat red meat, but never develop more typical allergic symptoms, such as a rash, swelling or trouble breathing. Sarah McGill, a gastroenterologist at the University of North Carolina. "What's new is that we have patients who really just have GI symptoms," explains Dr. Now, doctors' understanding of these allergies has evolved. Scientists first connected the dots between red meat allergies and tick bites more than a decade ago, when they identified patients who got allergic reactions such as hives or anaphylaxis after eating beef or pork. And, there's another emerging risk linked to tick bites known as alpha-gal syndrome, which causes a red meat allergy.
Increasingly, these bites are linked to illness, everything from Lyme disease to babesiosis. There's an increase in emergency department visits for tick bites this time of year as people spend more time outdoors. The Lone Star tick is thought to be primarily responsible for an allergy to red meat, but other ticks can't be ruled out. A Lone Star tick (middle) flanked by a deer tick (left) and a dog tick.
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