Talk:Alpha-gal syndrome

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A fact from Alpha-gal syndrome appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that bites from the lone star tick can make you allergic to mammals?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/April.

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Is the mechanism known?

The Wikipedia article claims that the tick saliva carries alpha-gal from an animal to the human, but the references on this seem only to be newspaper reports, and actual scientific papers seem to be more circumspect about what element of tick saliva actually causes the sensitization: it could in theory be some other agent intrinsic to the tick that mimics the galactosyl carbohydrate, especially since other blood-sucking parasites don't seem to be implicated. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 11:54, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great question and at the time you asked it, it was unknown. I believe it was confirmed by this study in May 2021 to be caused by the tick saliva itself. But tbh, a lot of this goes over my head.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/iid3.457 Ccoleman0556 (talk) 19:51, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have been diagnosed with Alpha Gal Syndrome. Isn’t it a syndrome, rather than an allergy per se? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.241.143 (talk) 17:02, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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