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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: A Gal with Alpha-Gal - an interview with Leah Spears-Blackmon
Description: Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Leah Spears-Blackmon. In late 2017, Leah Spears-Blackmon suffered three progressively serious allergic reactions after attending a wedding in Colorado. The third and most serious allergic reaction occurred while in the middle of a lake in rural Northwest Arkansas. Thanks to the quick action of a local friend and doctor, Ms. Spear-Blackmon’s potentially life-threatening allergy was prevented from progressing to anaphylactic shock. If you would like to learn more about how a woman from Arkansas has changed her diet and her life to protect her health from an allergy caused by a tick bite...