Another reason to be careful about tick bites!
Commins says that geographic areas where people are heavily bitten by ticks are hot spots for alpha-gal allergy. “When we look at cohorts of patients and ask them about their outdoor history, greater than 90 percent will say they’ve gotten tick bites in the last two to three years,” he says. Some patients also report being bitten by other insects, like fire ants, chiggers, or fleas, pointing to potential other causes for alpha-gal allergy.
This allergic response takes a few weeks to develop. If you’re someone who rarely has red meat, then you can go weeks between the tick bite and having some steak before knowing anything is really wrong, Commins says. As crazy as it sounds, this is far more common than you might think. One 2018 study found that in 28 of 85 cases of anaphylaxis, alpha-gal was the cause, per the
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