AlphaGalAustralia

Practical tools

Make your card

For the situations where you cannot explain it yourself: an ambulance, a hospital admission, a reaction that has already started. Fill this in and print it. Nothing you type leaves your device.

Your details

Edit this to match what your specialist has told you.

Other allergies, conditions, or regular medications.

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Wallet card, actual size

Medical alert

Your name

Alpha-gal syndrome (mammalian meat allergy). Risk of anaphylaxis.

Avoid: all mammalian meat and mammal-derived products.

I carry an adrenaline autoinjector.

In an emergency: give adrenaline, then call 000.

Emergency contact: not set

Hospital card

Alpha-gal syndrome

Your name

Diagnosis
Alpha-gal syndrome (mammalian meat allergy), an IgE-mediated allergy to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose. Tick-induced.
Must avoid
All mammalian meat and mammal-derived products.
Adrenaline
I carry an adrenaline autoinjector.
Other
None recorded.
Specialist
Not recorded.
Emergency contact
Not recorded.
For clinicians: reactions to ingested alpha-gal are characteristically delayed by 2 to 10 hours, so a recent meal history may not be obvious. Please check mammal-derived content in medications, capsules, gelatine-containing products and infusions before administration.TODO: clinical reviewer to confirm this wording, and advise which specific products should be named here

Where to put them

  • The wallet card goes with your bank cards, not loose in a bag. That is where paramedics look.
  • The hospital card goes in your bag, your glovebox, and with anything you would take to an admission.
  • Ask your GP to record the diagnosis in My Health Record, and consider medical alert jewellery as well, since a card is no use if your wallet is not with you.
  • If you have an ASCIA Action Plan, keep it with your adrenaline device. The card does not replace it.

Draft content, not yet clinically reviewed. The clinician-facing wording on the hospital card in particular must be signed off before this is published.