Show 1344: Managing Meat Allergy and Other Tick-Borne Diseases

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

If you are like us, you welcome the first warm days of the season with joy. And then you start to fret. How can you avoid tick bites? Many people recognize Lyme disease as a serious health threat from deer tick bites. However, fewer are aware that a bite from a completely different tick, the […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	A mysterious meat allergy is becoming increasingly common.
0:19.0	Why are so many people developing alpha-gal allergy? This is the people's pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Summer is a time when lots of people enjoy cookouts. It's also a time when tick bites are especially common.
0:41.0	This has turned into a bad combination.
0:44.0	People who have enjoyed burgers, hot dogs, and barbecue their entire lives may suddenly develop an allergy to red meat.
0:53.2	Symptoms can be delayed for hours after eating.
0:56.3	They range from hives or heartburn to trouble breathing.
0:59.6	Why has this allergy been so difficult to diagnose?
1:03.2	Coming up on the people's pharmacy,
1:05.2	meet allergies and other tick-born diseases. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, one of the most distinctive symptoms of a COVID infection is loss of the sense of smell. A new study of nearly 30,000 American
1:25.8	adults has found that about 60% of those who had COVID lost their sense of smell
1:31.9	during the infection.
1:33.0	In addition, nearly that many also had blunting of their sense of taste.
1:38.0	Not quite three-fourths of these individuals regained their senses of smell or taste after they recovered from COVID,
1:45.0	that left about 27% with only a partial recovery or none at all.
1:50.0	People who suffered more severe cases of COVID-19 were more likely to lose their gustatory
1:56.2	senses and less likely to recover them.
1:59.5	The authors of this research estimate that more than 20 million Americans may be suffering from a diminished
2:05.8	sense of smell or taste.
2:08.8	Over the last several years, rates of influenza have been surprisingly low.
2:14.0	Precautions taken against COVID infections may have had some impact on the transmission of the flu.
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