Egg allergy

[Rainbow91]

Hi! I’m after a bit of advice off anyone who has experienced something similar.

We learnt that my daughter was allergic to raw egg after she broke out in hives when her skin came into contact with it. She was around 6/7 months old. She’s now 10 months old and I still haven’t fed her any cooked egg. I’m also struggling to get a private allergy test anywhere as the general consensus seems to be they only test children over the age of one.

I’m worried about feeding her cooked egg due her previous reaction to raw egg whites. But also don’t want to be eliminating egg from her diet (and all the foods that contain egg) if she isn’t even allergic to it!

I think I’m just worried about worse case scenario of anaphylactic shock! So I haven’t gone anywhere near egg and we’ve also stopped eating eggs in the house too.

Any advice on what to do is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Just anecdotal here... family of egg allergy, like yours a skin reaction, they were exposed a few times, never anaphylaxis, but.it was cooked egg same as raw.

Hi my daughter had a reaction to egg she went to hospital she had a bad reaction went limp and lifeless before throwing up and regaining alert levels. She didn't need anything except piriton amazingly in hospital I think her body rejected it by being very sick a few times.

That was at 6 months. She had a routine booked blood test in hospital at 9 months and scored 6/6 for egg (worst is 6!) they tested her for all allergens.

We are having her re tested at 2 years in the same hospital but have been told to avoid ALL egg even if it's only slightly in ingredients. Hope this helps. I would ask for a blood test if I were you. I suppose we just got given one because her reaction was very severe 😔. I hope she grows out of it apparently they can 🤞🏻

@Rainbow91

Sorry forgot to tag you. I would be very wary about the eggs until you've had a test & I can completely understand why you are avoiding eggs. I had no idea that was coming at the weaning stage and it frightened the life out of me! Me and my husband have no allergies to anything so you just don't expect it. Hope it goes ok x

I would avoid feeding her eggs until she can be tested. Allergies can be really dangerous and it isn’t worth the risk. Egg allergies aren’t uncommon and children often grow out of them so it might not be for long.

My son was allergic to egg as a baby. Violently sick/bad tummy and hives on his face when first had some at 7 months. We were told to avoid egg including cooked egg. (Even a crumb of birthday cake meant hives on his face). When he was 2 we were advised to introduce cooked egg slowly which went fine. Then when he was nearly 3 we did egg tests at hospital which also went fine so he was officially’grown out of it’
Get medical advice but you will probably need to avoid it for a while until the point t where they may have grown out of it.

sadly, not all of them grow out of it.

but egg is a fairly easy allergy to manage. watch out for sausages, cookies, icecream, teacakes can be glazed with it, some hot cross buns, some cheese and pickle sandwiches... (I think they must have glued everything together with mayonaise. ) mars bars and milky way, fresh pasta.

generally the cheaper the biscuit or sausage, the less likely to have egg in.