Hesitancy in administering gelatin-containing vaccines to alpha-gal sensitized patients

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Saira Zafar and collaborators from the Rutgers New Jersey School of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, USA have published the article: Hesitancy in Administering Gelatin-Containing Vaccines to Alpha-Gal Sensitized Patients, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of February/07,/2022

SUMMARY

    Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently discovered disorder of sensitization to the carbohydrate galactose-α-1,3-galactose (alphagal) following a bite from the Lone Star tick. This can result in an IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction to non-primate mammalian meat typically developing 3-8 hours following red meat ingestion. Alpha-gal can . . .

     

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