Wikipedia

5019 readers

86 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Only links to Wikipedia permitted
Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.

Recommended:

Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

dantheclamman@lemmy.world

Plum@lemmy.world

137

Alpha-gal syndrome (tick borne meat allergy) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] valentinesmith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the recommendation is just to try to cleanly pull them off. With specialized equipment preferably.

Drowning them can lead to them vomiting into your blood circuit which can increase the chance the chance of contracting diseases as far as I know.

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I've heard to use a credit card to scrape them off, you're mostly just not supposed to squeeze the body. The pinchy tick remover tweezer style things you can get in the camping section at stores works great though.