patients and having them become aware so we can speed the diagnosis. reporter: doctors say use tick repellant, do frequent checks and keep to trails to avoid the kind of precautions doreen has to take. is it fair to say that it has changed your life? it s very fair to say that. anything i put in my body i have to monitor. and one of the really interesting things about this, and i think it s one of the reason why doctors have a difficult time, you don t get an immediate reaction in many instances, it could be two or five hours after you have eaten the meat. this isn t a bee allergy where immediately you might start blowing up. exactly. when you go into the emergency room and they ask you what happened, i don t know, i had dinner five hours ago, you re not thinking about it. this is a wake up call. primary care doctors will know about it, and they can get you to an allergist, those are the doctors primarily diagnosing what this is.