Vomiting after eating a boiled egg

[3Britnee]

I ate a boiled egg for lunch. With salad. Hadn't eaten since 8 last night (16:8). It was cooked properly, barely soft. They aren't old eggs, I bought them this morning.

A couple of minutes after, I started feeling sick and had to actually hang over a basin and was proper retching. Nothing came out though because I'd only eaten the egg so far and somehow that stayed down.

Something similar happened to me previously, I'd had omelette and salad a few days in a row, i think it was when there was that thread about whether an omelette constituted a proper dinner or not, and I kept fancying one. Anyway, this particular day, I was halfway through my omelette and came over proper heavey, full on saliva, the lot then too.

But I'm not allergic to eggs 🤷‍♀️ as far as I know.

I have this same thing if I eat scrambled eggs. It started about a year or so ago. I can eat eggs in other forms, even very soft boiled ones. It's really odd!

Google egg allergy

Try eating just the whites, and see how you feel. Then try the yolk? Sometimes it's the whites that cause an issue in allergies so maybe you are just intolerant to it?

Last time I had boiled eggs, (and 2 sausages as soldiers) I was fine, and I've had omelettes since that one made me ill. It is very strange.

I'll Google allergies but I've never been ill from eggs any other times.

I get this with duck eggs but am fine with hens eggs.

If I eat a duck egg I have horrendous stomach cramps and sometimes throw up. I have no idea why.

A duck egg did this to me. Never had one before or since. Could the egg have been off?

I'm horribly allergic to duck egg but can eat hen eggs no problem. Something to do with a difference in proteins apparently. I get horrendous cramps from my rib cage down to my knees almost, it's awful, plus violent D&V... First discovered 36 hours before my sisters wedding. Actual duck meat is fine too...

@yeahdarling

A duck egg did this to me. Never had one before or since. Could the egg have been off?

It would have been discoloured, surely?

@JengaCupboard

I'm horribly allergic to duck egg but can eat hen eggs no problem. Something to do with a difference in proteins apparently. I get horrendous cramps from my rib cage down to my knees almost, it's awful, plus violent D&V... First discovered 36 hours before my sisters wedding. Actual duck meat is fine too...

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There's an identifiable reason why scrambled would make you ill but other eggs don't 👍

I'm intolerant to eggs which only happened in the last 5 years or so, (I'm 43), I don't vom, I get the shits.
Egg in things is fine but plain eggs, or anything v eggy, like quiche, nope.
It's happened with mushrooms too.

😭 I was going to start eating a boiled egg every day for the goodness 😂

Too much salt on the egg?

@3Britnee

Last time I had boiled eggs, (and 2 sausages as soldiers) I was fine, and I've had omelettes since that one made me ill. It is very strange.

I'll Google allergies but I've never been ill from eggs any other times.

Boiled eggs with sausage as soldiers? I had never even heard of this but of course it is genius!

@JengaCupboard

I'm horribly allergic to duck egg but can eat hen eggs no problem. Something to do with a difference in proteins apparently. I get horrendous cramps from my rib cage down to my knees almost, it's awful, plus violent D&V... First discovered 36 hours before my sisters wedding. Actual duck meat is fine too...

Margot Robbie is horribly allergic to hens eggs but can eat duck eggs no problem (it’s what she ate in Birds of Prey)

Funny how certain types of the same food can trigger people

When I was pregnant eggs made me vomit. Any chance you could be?

Op I remember that thread about whether an omelette can be an evening meal. It made me want one and I had one that night for dinner. So sorry you’re having egg trouble. Good advice above.

@criminallyinsane

Too much salt on the egg?

Possibly. But I didn't think I put that much on.

Could it actually be that you've built up too much stomach acid by the time you eat and that's what's making you retch?

Or have you been doing 16:8 before this and been fine?

This is prompted by my cat who has started being sick a little bit in the morning and I've realised it's because he's been going longer between meals recently.

Not that I suspect you're a cat.

I try to avoid bread, so did this last time 😂

That was for ODFox.

@Shopgirl1

When I was pregnant eggs made me vomit. Any chance you could be?

I doubt it, but I'll test tomorrow. I had a positive that faded away, along with all symptoms, about 2ish months ago. My DH has been abroad for 3 months though.

It was probably too much salt.

DT2 is properly allergic to eggs but only if they’re lightly cooked - immediate hives / swelling if he ate say scrambled egg, boiled egg etc. No problem at all if baked into something like cake, or even Yorkshire pudding if thoroughly cooked

@HeronLanyon

Op I remember that thread about whether an omelette can be an evening meal. It made me want one and I had one that night for dinner. So sorry you’re having egg trouble. Good advice above.

My omelettes I made them were delicious. I had omelette for 4 or 5 days in a row 😂

It’s definitely a thing, a fairly sudden aversion to eggs in adulthood. There are a few posts on it here in the past.

For me, it happens, I need to avoid all egg-heavy foods for a couple of months and then I can gradually reintroduce them. But eggs as an ingredient in cake or something are fine.

If worried, of course talk to your doctor but for me, there was no cause, it seems to be a thing that happens some women in their mid-30s on and it’s been perfectly manageable for me like that.

Hope you feel ok now.