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> the immune system would recognize the bite much quicker, attack anything associated with it

How does this mechanism work? I once had a doctor suggest that I may have developed a food allergy due to some kind of co-exposure event. Why doesn't this happen with vaccines, for example, that anything we are exposed to the same day we get a vaccine we are at risk of developing an allergy to?




Last I heard there wasn’t a scientific answer for why some people developed food allergies like a red meat allergy after a tick based infection so that theory would be pure speculation on the doctor’s part. I’m not a doctor and this information may be old so take it with a grain of salt


The allergy is specifically to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a very common carbohydrate that occurs in both the meat of domesticated ungulates and the saliva of ticks, but which is not produced by primates. The idea is that tick bites initiate an exaggerated immune response, but more study is required.




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