Alpha Gal found in Chiggers now
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This is not a good development. Ticks are “fairly” easy to avoid, not super simple but at least they are avoidable but chiggers (at least in Kansas) are pretty much everywhere in the midwest. Maybe this has been a thing for a while and I am just finding out about it now?
https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/chigger-bites-may-trigger-alpha-gal-allergy-to-red-meat
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Tim Evers Yes BUT that would destroy my way of life for a while…I am going to build a titanium suit for when I go outside, it is the only way!
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Jonathon in a week or so. -
Jonathon in a week or so.Dave in AZ Absolutely the right character, except he will be holding his cleaver.
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If your out in the country ticks will get you before chiggers in kansas
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This is not a good development. Ticks are “fairly” easy to avoid, not super simple but at least they are avoidable but chiggers (at least in Kansas) are pretty much everywhere in the midwest. Maybe this has been a thing for a while and I am just finding out about it now?
https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/chigger-bites-may-trigger-alpha-gal-allergy-to-red-meat
Jonathon Ya gotta keep some Campho Phenique handy to bathe in.
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calldoctoday I had never heard of that stuff before today, I was hoping it was champagne and I was going to expense a bottle of it and get bit by something as an experiment!
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