There are undoubtedly a lot of health benefits to a planned vegetarian diet. You will live a long life as well. But vegetarians are minority in several parts of the Western society, say between 2-10%. However, this percentage can change. Thanks to the quick spread of Australian tick. It has been found out by researches that many people who have experienced just a bite from tick have become allergic to meat for the rest of their lives.
This tick is an Australian paralysis tick. It is found along the eastern coast of Australia. The adult ones are 4mm across. These pests generally attach themselves to the plants and jump on the passing bandicoot or to human beings.
These ticks can crawl inside the clothing and suck blood from human body by biting the skin. In most of the cases, it’s only a bit of itching and swelling. But something it is more than that. It’s a life threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis, which causes rash throughout the body. There is swelling of the tongue and throat, which makes breathing difficult. There is also diarrahoea, vomiting and serious fall of blood pressure. To be more precise, it is a life-threatening situation and a medical emergency.
It has also been found out by researches that a bite from Australian paralysis tick causes an allergic reaction to eating meat. The cause of this reaction has also been found.
It begins with galactose, a not very sweet sugar. We human beings when eat it, it is fine. But when it is combined with glucose, a sugar, lactose is formed-the one that’s in the breast milk. The problem starts when two galactose molecules are combined together in a special manner for making a bigger sugar known as alpha-gal. All kinds of mammals carry this alpha-gal except human beings and higher primates.
Thus, the scenario-a cute animal may be playing quite happily on east coast of Australia. The tick bites it for getting blood. Some alpha-gal from the animal gets into the tick’s gut. After some time when the tick again feels hungry, it bites a human being and some of alpha-gal t6hen gets transferred to the human body.
A lot of Australians are bitten by ticks but only some of them become allergic to meat. This means, there is something that happens to this human being-we are not aware what it is but the immune system of the human cranks slowly into action.
After the delay-may be after 1-6 months after the tick bite-they have yet another regular meal that involve meat. However, on such an occasion, they get allergic reaction. In some of the cases, they may die from the anaphylactic reaction unless medical treatment is done in time.
The allergic meat reaction is set off by beef, pork, lamb and whale meat but not chicken and fish because they aren’t mammals.
Getting rid of these Australian paralysis ticks is important. So, make this possible by contacting R.I.P. Pest Management, a pest exterminator in Northern Beaches for making the environment where you live a tick-free area.
