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Stephanie Bartz

Oct 15, 2026

20:12
want to add something?
20:13
Yeah, just as Leah said, a lot of cases that are coming in, especially on the CAPE, where they may not have been aware of alpha-gal syndrome for decades.
20:23
quite some time and they've had these symptoms that are unexplained, they'll be requested to be tested for alpha-gal syndrome as sort of an elimination process.
20:32
And they test positive, but they don't necessarily have symptoms that correlate to eating mammalian products or dairy or anything that would have alpha-gal in it.
20:44
And they use this positive test as...
20:50
This is what it is.
20:52
And it's a little challenging to sort of explain that in order to have alpha-gal syndrome, you need to have the corresponding symptoms with mammalian products.
25:57
So frustrating, right? So what about the question of what specialist is best to see? Is it all of the above? Dietician, allergist, primary, gastro?

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