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

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[–] valentinesmith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months 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 4 months 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.