Pork (f26) IgE details
What Pork (f26) IgE shows
This test measures IgE antibodies specific to pork proteins in your blood to check for allergic sensitization to pork meat. It is often included in an alpha-gal panel. Alpha-gal syndrome is a red meat allergy, often linked to tick bites, in which the immune system reacts to a sugar found in pork, beef and lamb, and reactions typically come several hours after eating. A positive pork result can help explain symptoms such as hives, itching or digestive upset after eating pork, and some people with cat allergy also react to pork. A positive result shows sensitization, not necessarily allergy, so it is read with alpha-gal results and your symptoms.
Tests that include Pork (f26) IgE
This test measures the level of IgE antibodies in response to pork in your blood. It's used to help diagnose allergies to pork, which can cause symptoms like hives, stomach pain, or even more severe reactions. By measuring IgE antibodies specific to pork, this test can confirm if you have a pork allergy.
- Pork (f26) IgE Measures IgE antibodies to pork, a meat allergen, often tested alongside alpha-gal to look into delayed reactions after eating red meat.
This in vitro allergen-specific IgE panel is used to quantitatively measure an individual's IgE response to alpha-gal, an allergy component, and 3 meats (beef, pork, and lamb) that commonly trigger alpha-gal-associated meat allergy. This IgE panel may be used in conjunction with other clinical information to aid in the diagnosis of alpha-gal syndrome, a severe allergic reaction to mammalian meat induced by past tick bites [1].
- Beef (f27) IgE Measures IgE antibodies to beef, used to check for allergic sensitization that may explain your symptoms.
- Galactose-Alpha-1,3-Galactose (Alpha-Gal) IgE Measures IgE antibodies to alpha-gal, a sugar found in red meat, used to investigate delayed allergic reactions linked to tick bites.
- Lamb (f88) IgE Measures IgE antibodies to lamb meat to check for allergic sensitization, including as part of testing for alpha-gal (red meat) allergy.
- Pork (f26) IgE Measures IgE antibodies to pork, a meat allergen, often tested alongside alpha-gal to look into delayed reactions after eating red meat.
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