SHOCKING cause of Deadly Meat Allergy: Medical Mystery Solved!

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  @ViolinMD · 2 years ago · pinned

  Enjoyed this video? Check out this one next - a woman made one simple dietary mistake and it sent her to the hospital! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXvgYZeTcAg">https://youtu.be/kXvgYZeTcAg</a>

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  @GHFear · 2 years ago (edited)

  I had Covid-19 in 2020 and just days after I recovered, I was hospitalized for 3 months because my white blood cell count went through the roof and they were attacking all of my cells.<br>After 3 months of the worst pain imaginable and doctors not understand what was causing it, I was too weak to eat, so I just didn&apos;t eat for about 4 days and then all my symptoms went away.<br>Then the doctors sent me home thinking everything was okay.<br>I came home and had a big meal and just 2 hours later I was once again feeling pain in every single cell in my body.<br>It was worse than ever and I had to be hospitalized once again.<br><br>Right away I saw a link between eating and getting these symptoms because it had stopped once I stopped eating and it started just hours after eating again. <br>I decided to not eat for a few days again while I was hospitalized and like clockwork I was feeling perfectly fine just 4 days later once again.<br>This scared me because if I can&apos;t eat, I can&apos;t live.<br>And if eating meant I would be in that much pain, why would I want to live?<br>So I told my doctor about the connection between eating and getting the symptoms. He said to me that he didn&apos;t share that idea at all and that I was looking in the wrong direction and that I should let him do the doctoring.<br><br>I was sent back home again and this time I decided to keep fasting for a week and during that week I felt absolutely fine.<br>So I decided to start experimenting to see which foods were causing the reaction.<br><br>Day #1: I ate salmon and I didn&apos;t get any symptoms.<br><br>Day #2: I ate pork and I didn&apos;t get any symptoms.<br><br>Day #3: I ate rice and this time I was sent right back to the hospital.<br><br><br>Waited a few days and was sent back home and the doctor once again didn&apos;t test for anything new, but just ran the same tests he had done 20 times before and said that he believed I was a hypochondriac that was triggering a severe white blood cell release with the placebo effect and that he could recommend me a psychiatrist.<br><br>I didn&apos;t ever want to see my doctor again, so I started testing only a TINY amount of the food to see if the symptoms would be milder.<br>And they were!<br>So I tested every possible food you could imagine over the next 6 months and the ONLY food I could eat without getting severe headaches, bloodshot eyes and bloody stool, was meat.<br>Any type of meat, fish, chicken or other animal.<br><br>I could also eat pure oils.<br><br>I just couldn&apos;t eat carbohydrates. NONE of them.<br><br>After being in constant pain from experimenting to find the foods I couldn&apos;t eat for those 6 months, I stopped experimenting and just ate meat for a whole year.<br>My intestines healed a lot during those 365 days and I thought I was ready to see if something had changed with this &quot;allergy&quot; or whatever it was.<br><br>I tried eating some rice and then I just waited...<br>Oh my God, was this the longest day and night of my life.<br>I was so scared that the symptoms would come back, because I knew just how insanely painful it was.<br>But nothing happened...<br>Not even a little headache.<br><br>I waited 24 hours before celebrating and then I remember looking at myself in the bathroom mirror and just crying for like 30 minutes.<br>&quot;I can eat rice...&quot; I kept saying over and over while tears were falling down my face.<br><br>Fast forward to today and I just can&apos;t eat gluten or milk protein, but everything else is fine.<br>My milk protein allergy is getting better over time since I started taking a double dose of probiotics.<br>Still don&apos;t have an official diagnosis and if I ever decide to get one, I will go to a private specialist in gastrointestinal problems and autoimmune disorders.<br><br>I don&apos;t expect anyone to read this, but if you do, thank you.<br><br>Take care.<br><br>Update (September 2025):<br>I can now eat/drink milk protein without any issues. It&apos;s like my body has had time to heal now that I have been without milk and gluten for so long. But I still have Celiac disease, which I don&apos;t expect to go away, so I don&apos;t touch gluten at all.

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  @nicsxnin6786 · 2 years ago

  As someone who’s life has been ruined by tick borne illness I guessed this immediately. Thank you for educating people on the dangers of ticks. Lyme and Babesia have nearly killed me and my quality of life is terrible. It’s very hard to get a timely diagnosis. I can’t overstate the dangers of tick bites.

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  @markfischer3626 · 2 years ago

  In 2014 I found a tick on me. I live in a rural area. I removed it and immediately went to my doctor. She gave me a prescription of four Cipro tablets and told me to take one every 12 hours. Last year I had an antibody panel done. It showed I had antibodies for Lyme disease. Damned I&apos;ve got a great doctor. She knew exactly what to do and saved me from a serious illness.

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  @VinhNguyen-vk1ci · 1 year ago

  This case reminds me of something that happened many years ago—about 3 or 4 years after I graduated from medical school, during my time as an ICU physician as one of a rural hospital in Viet Nam.<br>It was the middle of the night when I received a middle-aged female patient. She was extremely lethargic, could barely mumble. Her pulse was 0, and her blood pressure was also 0, no wheezing.<br>Her family reported hearing a noise from the bathroom. When they went to check, they found her almost collapsed on the floor and rushed her to the hospital. They said she had eaten dinner normally, and everything seemed fine before they all went to bed. She had no cough, fever, diarrhea, or urinary symptoms. The only new factor in the household was that they had been painting the house.<br>While we were administering fluid resuscitation, I performed a quick evaluation to rule out other types of shock:<br>• Cardiogenic shock? Unlikely—no chest pain and ECG was normal.<br>• Septic shock? Unlikely—no signs or symptoms, and at that time in my area, the most common source was digestive, which wasn&apos;t evident here.<br>• Aortic aneurysm rupture or necrotizing pancreatitis? bedside abdominal ultrasound was normal.<br>Despite aggressive fluid boluses, her pulse and BP remained at zero. I knew if we didn’t act fast, she would die.<br>I called her family again and asked again. They recalled that just before she collapsed, she had mentioned itching when she urinated.<br>As soon as I heard the word itching, I suspected anaphylactic shock. I immediately administered intramuscular epinephrine and briefly felt a pulse, but it quickly disappeared. I then started an epinephrine infusion, titrated to the maximum dose, and added steroids along with both H1 and H2 antihistamines.<br>Her pulse and blood pressure finally responded. I still remember my nurse running around different departments to borrow all the adrenaline they had, since our hospital pharmacy was closed at night, and we had already used all of ours.<br>By the time my shift ended in the morning, I checked on her—she was sitting up, eating breakfast, and chatting with her children. The next day when I returned to work, she had already been discharged.<br>That was the first time I applied my knowledge of anaphylactic shock from medical school to save a life. Back then, we didn’t have the internet. I remember going to my office to quickly review my textbooks, adjusting medications at the bedside, staying up all night, and finally seeing the patient healthy and happy in the morning. It filled my heart with joy.

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  @johnvvoorthuijzen2653 · 2 years ago

  Sweet lord, 15 minutes of cpr, she must&apos;ve been on her last legs when the paramedics arrived 😮

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  @juliagatto2649 · 2 years ago

  We cover this extensively in veterinary school. I don&apos;t think enough credit is given to veterinarians and their important role in public health.

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  @wendyn9780 · 2 years ago

  My late wife was a Rheumatologist and a respected diagnostician. Is is wonderful to see another MD following that tradition and educating us too! 🙏🏻

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  @DrWellness50 · 1 year ago

  A man named Tom suffered a near-fatal allergic reaction after eating red meat, which doctors initially misdiagnosed as septic shock. After investigating, they discovered he had Alpha-gal syndrome, a rare meat allergy triggered by a previous Lone Star tick bite. The delayed allergic reaction led to anaphylactic shock, causing his organs to struggle. Once properly diagnosed, Tom was treated with epinephrine and recovered, though he now has to avoid red meat and carry an EpiPen. The video highlights the growing prevalence of Alpha-gal syndrome, its delayed symptoms, and the importance of tick bite prevention.

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  @susanr7931 · 2 years ago

  I did guess the diagnosis in less than a minute, but I had personal experience with this. I am an RN and my husband was the patient. &nbsp;We had gone hiking and my husband got a tick on his leg, which I recognized as a Lone Star Tick. Living in New York State, seeing these was not uncommon and I removed it. &nbsp;We later went to the ER where we got the full &quot;riot act.&quot; &nbsp;NO MAMMALIAN MEAT for a year--minimum. &nbsp;Luckily we removed the tick before he ever got an anaphylactic reaction and his diet was prophylactically changed to eliminate mammalian meat (beef, lamb, pork or venison, etc.) for 18 months to give the antigens time to be eliminated. &nbsp;My husband was fortunately able to have meat that was of the bird, fish, reptilian (alligator) and amphibians (frogs and turtles) so he wasn&apos;t going to be starved. At the 18 month mark, we got my husband an appointment with the allergist, who gave us an 8AM appointment and told us to bring a 6 ounce piece of beef (he chose a medium rare ribe-eye) to the appointment where he could eat it and we waited until 5PM to see if he had any anaphylactic reaction while they waited with epinephrine and oxygen. &nbsp;He said he felt like he was playing Russian Roulette as he ate his steak. We went home at 6PM ready to re-start his life on beef.

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  @CornbreadOracle · 2 years ago

  I know several people with Alpha-Gal. Apparently we live in ‘ground zero’ for it. Some people have it for a while and get over it; some people never do. And it varies in severity. Some people can tolerate dairy and gelatin ingredients in cooked foods. Others can’t even have traces of mammalian protein ingredients. I’m terrified of it because I have a pig valve in my heart.

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  @marycrosthwait8615 · 2 years ago

  My husband had this. He was in the Army reserves and must have been bitten by a tick during summer camp in Georgia. It was about 14 years ago before anyone really knew about it. Even the allergist was surprised that he was allergic to red meat. My poor husband almost cried at the thought of no more juicy steaks. &nbsp;The first signs were itching and a severe rash. Then what made him go to the doctor was he felt his throat closing up and he would throw up. &nbsp;Thank goodness he wasn’t as bad as the man in the video.

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