Unexplained sudden deaths give me the willies but also pique my medical curiosity. Maybe you caught the story in last week’s New York Times which took doctors a year to solve. A healthy 47 y/o airline pilot was grilling burgers with his family in his backyard, became suddenly ill after eating his, then quickly unconscious […]
Tag: alpha gal diagnosis and treatment
CASE STUDY: Why Ben Can’t Eat Steak!
I’d known the two of them for years. Now in their early fifties, Ben and Frieda were in good health—until Ben started reacting to red meat. What was happening? As it turns out, Ben was developing Alpha-Gal Syndrome, a tick-borne allergy that causes reactions to red meat. Frieda began, “We think this probably began weeks […]