The problem lies from my dad who claims to have allergy to animal blood detected by medical studies in England 30 years ago (my mom is carnivorous). The three children also have this allergy, but to different degrees. My older sister confirmed her allergy for 10 years ago in the USA, there were no clear studies of the causes, so stop worrying about that and we are vegetarians.
I have many questions as whether the hereditary transfer possibly is by genetic or epigenetic means. I think that it isn't the allergy to the animal protein because we eat eggs and cheese, there is something in the blood. My sister´s daughter doesn't have that allergy.
How are the allergies detected/confirmed? Clinical picture, challenges, laboratory tests? What methods?
It was something similar to an antibiogram but it is for allergies, which they take your blood to analyse. The only problem was that we were going to the doctor every time we put us very sick, in my case I only diagnosed chronic bronchitis, one day my father discovered that if he ate the meat of any kind is getting bad and if he left it was starting to heal it. Many times they did not know what allergy was and just gave us an antiallergic.
I don't know if that is your case, but it sees like "meat allergy". It is not uncommon and is generally developed at childhood. That kind of allergy generally are due to some level off allergic sensitivity to some proteins. Also there are some meat more or less allergenic (e.g. cattle beef allergy is more common than rabbit meat allergy).
Below are the links of two articles: one about beef allergy in children and the other more unspecific, about allergenic proteins and the genetic concerns).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1398-9995.2003.00407.x/full
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900700002859
I hope that it will be of some help.
There are also proteins in the blood which may serve as the antigen. Many small molecules (called haptens or incomplete antigens) are not antigenic, but link up with our own proteins. The immune system may recognize and respond to a protein-hapten combination The immune response is harmful rather than protective because it attacks our own cells. Since these are protein receptors, for sure they are hereditary.
Yes you are correct that you are genetically susceptible to susceptible to such allergen allergens.
I hope this helps
I am happy to know that there are more people who also had a similar issue, Milk makes me sick, I consumption cheese (not all) and yogurt but my diet is complex because it does not consumption things with many chemical additives, I have to also take care of acid-base balance in my body, what good is that my father is an engineer in food, then I have a diet rich in nutrients
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