She’s a Whopper girl trapped in a tofu world — and it wasn’t by choice. Daisy Holstine was forced to go vegan earlier this year after developing a severe allergy to meat and dairy, seemingly overnight. “I was waking up with my eyes swollen shut,” the 36-year-old from Mountain Home, Arkansas, told The Post. “The hives were all over my body, even on my scalp, my hands, the bottoms of my feet.”
And her tragic cheeseburger-free illness could happen to anyone.
Daisy Holstine gave up meat and dairy after a rare, serious allergy took hold.
The culprit? A creepy crawler known as the lone star tick, whose bite has saddled thousands of Americans with a a bizarre condition that can trigger life-threatening reactions to red meat and dairy.
Once virtually unheard of in the US, cases of alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) are now on the rise across the country — with one hot spot lurking just outside the Big Apple.
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