Cake intolerance?

[cakewoes]

The allergies topic is always quiet so posting here

TMI and don't read if you're eating (I've NC!)

For my birthday a friend got me a piece of cake from a postal bakery. Almost immediately after I had severe stomach cramps, had to run to the bathroom and had bad diarrhoea
Blamed something in the cake and carried on as normal - I had this cake before and had an upset stomach but didn't link it as we had a takeaway the same night

In the meantime I've eaten supermarket puddings, biscuits, the odd cream cake etc, all fine

Today I got a millionaire brownie from my local cake shop, I've had cake from there probably monthly and no issues
Eaten it and within 20 mins, stomach cramps started, and it's like my stomach just needs to empty

WTF is doing it?! I do eat vegetables but probably 1-2 times a week I'll have a biscuit or egg custard tart or something and I would like this not to happen again

I've spoken to the other cake place

Their ingredients list is minimal for what I had - flour, sugar, butter, cinnamon, eggs - 100% butter, no spread, oils etc

@INeedToClingToSomething With all due respect, the symptoms I have experienced definitely cause a very quick reaction. It doesn't happen at any other time, only with a couple of things, and as I said, mango is one of them.

With all due respect, I was only trying to help. If you choose not believe facts that’s up to you. Look it up yourself if you don’t believe me. Or don’t. You have the information. What you choose to do with it is your choice.

I would be looking carefully at the amount of egg used. Commercial bakeries often use heat treated unshelled product whilst smaller bakeries with smaller volumes may not. If egg is a bit of a nemesis you may be fine if it’s well cooked but if its a product cooked at a lower heat as some bakery products require or made with a higher volume of egg per cake then it might get you.

Another one to watch out for is richer cakes made using the egg weight made from the yolk only. That is find for most but not so good for those sensitive to the protein contained in egg yolk. It might be why the richer cakes with minimal ingredients have caused some grief.

No issues with egg now. I was severely allergic as a child but no problems since. Didn't have my MMR due to that
Dad was also allergic as a child and grew out of it he told me yesterday
Regularly have three lightly scrambled eggs for breakfast or dippy eggs. Hungry now

It's just bizarre how I can eat eggs on toast dripping with butter or chocolate or cream cakes but yet these two types of cake have caused such a violent reaction

What age are you?

Menopause can mess with the immune system.

If you've had a childhood egg allergy that's definitely worth checking. As a previous poster said, it may be the concentration levels of the egg rather than the egg itself.

40, not in menopause (I have endo and am going to have to be in medical menopause for 3 months before an operation soon)

Endo can definitely mess with the guts!