Submitted by housemuncher t3_ykll5q in askscience
marigolds6 t1_iux3208 wrote
Reply to comment by danby in Would a person who is allergic to domestic cats also be allergic to big cats? by housemuncher
Out of curiosity, which one of these, if any, would correspond to pork-cat syndrome? (I have a pork intolerance or mild pork allergy but no apparent cat allergy or broader mammalian meat allergy like alpha-gal.)
danby t1_iux8h0s wrote
After a quick google the answer is none of these. This is a rare condition where you have an allergy to cat or pork epithelium (typically it would be some protein in the skin or mucus membranes of the animal). And being exposed to the other causes a severe over reaction.
But if your pork allergy isn't to an epithelial protein then you wouldn't be at risk of being exposed to cat epithelia tissue
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