Timeline for Meat and mushroom allergies, why are they so rare?
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| Jul 16, 2013 at 3:00 | review | Community Evaluations | |||
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| May 30, 2013 at 13:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBiology/status/340104898131656705 | ||
| May 30, 2013 at 11:32 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | @ftt Nope. That's why it was a comment and not an answer ;) | |
| May 30, 2013 at 10:51 | answer | added | AndroidPenguin | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2013 at 7:28 | comment | added | rg255 | What @ChinmayKanchi says makes sense, an allergic reaction is a response to unknown antigens, those antigens in meat are more likely to be our own - being allergic to these antigens would be like walking around with a giant self-destruct button on your forehead and hoping someone doesn't push it... | |
| May 29, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | ftt | Chinmay Kanchi, yes, that's plausible to me. But do you know anything to support this hypothesis? | |
| May 29, 2013 at 6:51 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | I suspect that the reason mammalian meat allergies are so rare is that they cause extreme morbidity or mortality in kids. Essentially, most components of mammalian meat are going to be very similar or identical to self-antigens and therefore, your immune system will destroy your own body from the inside out. | |
| May 28, 2013 at 20:24 | history | edited | ftt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified that I'm not interested in seafood, only mammalian meat and poultry
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| May 28, 2013 at 20:22 | comment | added | ftt | Yes, excluding seafood. I'll fix the wording. | |
| May 28, 2013 at 19:59 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 28, 2013 at 19:52 | comment | added | kmm | Do you mean few mammal meat allergies? There are many fish and invertebrate (e.g., shellfish) allergies. | |
| May 28, 2013 at 19:40 | history | asked | ftt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |