Potential Egg Allergy or Intolerance

[MrsPeytonJones]

My asthma has been quite bad over the past 18 months. I've had pneumonia and other chest infections in this time. The consultant has changed my inhalers and added new ones. In the past 6 weeks or so I have been feeling a bit better.
I've felt that something was triggering my asthma symptoms but couldn't work it out. Anyway, it seems that egg could be the culprit (baked in cakes or as scrambled eggs for example), as last night I had some cake and started wheezing, mouth tingling etc. I took some piriton and symptoms eased. Has anyone else had an egg allergy/intolerance start all of a sudden? I am seeing my GP later this week to discuss.

Sorry to hear that! I don't have an egg allergy but my dd does. Allergies can happen at any stage of life. Wheezing could be considered a symptom of anaphylaxis so you should absolutely take this seriously.

I would expect you to be prescribed an epi pen based on what you have written (wheezing, plus having asthma as a co-morbidity) although you may be referred to an allergist for this to happen and then any repeat prescriptions would be done by the Gp.

Allergist would do a skin prick test and if it comes back with a false negative then blood test. if blood tests also show a false negative then a food challenge to verify allergic status.

Just as a heads up and not to scare you at all, but asthma is considered a risk factor for allergies because sometimes people mistake anaphylaxis for an asthma attack so don't take adrenaline in time. Just saying this so you are aware. maybe it happens the other way round too I don't know.

@muggart thank you, will avoid all egg for now and ask for the GP to refer me to an allergist.

You can develop allergies at any age. My auntie developed a nut allergy in her 20s and I developed a histamine intolerance at 21 causing me to have non immune anaphylaxis!

I'd remove all egg