Alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a bite from the lone star tick, may also be triggered by the deer tick and the western black-legged tick.

We were curious why this is,” said Dr. Daniel Kaplan, an immunologist and dermatologist at the University of Pittsburgh who led the work. Naming the players in the itch-scratch circuit is a step ...

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Cover it with a clean bandage each time. Do this until healed. Caution: for spreading infections (redness or red streaks), your child needs to be seen. Most insect bites are itchy for several days.

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Feeling itchy after a shower is usually due to dry skin ... The hives in cholinergic urticaria are smaller than a mosquito bite. Although each hive is only the size of a pinpoint, they can group ...

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Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

As the weather grows warmer, more spiders will begin to appear. Here are the 10 venomous spiders in Louisiana and typical reactions to poisonous bites.