How concerned with you be about this type of reaction?

[purpleminion]

DD1 is 7 and is an 'atopic child' according to her paediatrician.

She has asthma, eczema and hay fever, very sensitive skin and did have an egg allergy. She has also had mild reactions to unknown allergens.

As a smaller child she reacted very strongly to raw egg - facial swelling and all over breakout of hives and exacerbation of her eczema. She would come out in hives if she ate anything with egg in it.

We went completely egg free for several years but last year following blood tests we were told to start introducing cooked egg in buns, cake etc. We did this and she was fine.

I haven't tried raw egg on her and she is very reluctant to eat eggs so we haven't gone that far yet.

Several times recently she has come out in little hives around her mouth after eating. No other issues developed and after Piriton she was fine.

She had this reaction yesterday after eating some chicken goujons.

I gave her Piriton and she was ok although I noticed her eczema seemed a little worse.

There was some egg white in the coating so possibly she is still allergic to egg.

We are not due to see the paed for six months.

I am not sure what to do. Our GP is not helpful with allergies.

Should I be concerned that the reactions might get worse?

Any advice?
Thanks

As she is asthmatic I would try and get another appointment to see her paediatrician.

Hi PurpleMininon. My ds is allergic to egg, and has just begun to tolerate baked egg. He currently eats cake, but no other egg products. I have been advised to give him a home challenge with less well-cooked egg, which I will be doing soon.

Is your dd is okay with nuts? Egg and peanut or tree nut allergies often go hand in hand, as the proteins in these foods are very similar.

How long were the goujons that your dd ate cooked for? If less than around 20 minutes at a fairly high temperature, it may be that she can tolerate only hard-baked egg at this stage. If I were you, I would withdraw all forms of egg from your dd's diet except for hard-baked, which you know she can tolerate. (There is evidence that egg-allergic children who can, and do, eat well-cooked forms of egg regularly may outgrow their allergy sooner than if they avoid egg altogether).

If there are any further reactions, keep a record of all of the ingredients your dd has eaten at that meal, to help you to piece together what might be triggering them. I do second the advice to try to bring forward your next appointment as your dd is asthmatic, but if it is the case that it is more lightly-cooked forms of egg that are causing the problem, you have lived with this for so long that another six months shouldn't be too hard to manage in the scheme of things.

I hope you get to the bottom of it soon

Hi, thanks for the replies.

I am going to try and get an appointment with an allergy specialist.

I got called into dd's school today as she had some sort of skin reaction.

It had calmed down a bit by the time I got there but it was an allergic reaction to something. She hadn't had lunch yet so maybe not food related. It looked to me like it was maybe a cleaning product or paint or something her arm touched on a desk.

I don't have much confidence in her paed as regards allergies so a specialist is probably the way to go.

I can't believe we are going through this again. She hasn't had any issues for ages.