Hand hold - stage 3 egg ladder

[WolfMother326]

My 3.5 year old son is finally making some progress on the egg ladder. He's been tolerating well baked egg for about a year and a half and now we've successfully been able to introduce everything in the stage 2 guide from our dietician (brioche, quorn with egg, store bought cakes and pancakes).

Tomorrow I'm going to give him a bite of well cooked hard boiled egg and I know it's the next step but I just feel a sense of anxiety, having kept him away from egg ever since he first broke out in hives and started vomiting as a 6 months old after trying the exact same thing. I know we've come a long way and many children outgrow this allergy (he's also allergic to peanut).

Would love to hear from others who have successfully gotten through this stage.

How did it go OP?
We're at a similar stage with our 5 year ar old and it's quite scary.

@gertrudebiggles how is it going for you?
So far we're having individual bites of omelette and hard boiled egg with no reaction. I've been nervous to progress but I think we'll increase the amount this week.
Does your child have any other allergies?

Still chickening out over here!

However, we're climbing the dairy allergy ladder and he had his first bite of chocolate over Easter so I'll take that as a win.

Also dealing with nut and fish :/

Ok so now we are having 4-5 bites at a time with no issues.

Anyone else on an allergy ladder?

@gertrudebiggles have you tried yet?

Funny timing! I've given 1/16th boiled egg a couple of times this week and all ok but today he had a bigger portion (maybe 1/12th) and got a few hives on his face. I think I will drop back to 1/16th.
Sounds like you're doing well, 4-5 bites is fab!

Good work @gertrudebiggles, hope you can eventually increase to the 1/12th. Yes we've been giving 3-4 bites a few times a week. I'm so shocked it's working. Wish we could have the same with peanut but so much less likely.

Are you doing immunotherapy at all? Palforzia is available for peanut now- definitely worth checking out

@gertrudebiggles we can't get palforzia referal on the NHS as they've closed the programme due to it being oversubscribed. We have an appointment for a private oral immunotherapy referral in July, hoping to start before he's 4 in August otherwise Palforzia after 4 years old would be the option but much more expensive.
How's your ladder going?

Ah that is fair enough.

We've been trying bigger amount and he's been eating quails egg (we get them in sainsburys) all ok.

Well... my DH had DS alone one morning a couple of weeks ago and tried a boiled egg- giving 1/8 every 15 minutes and he at the whole thing! No reaction.

I wouldn't have tried but I'm glad he did.

So now he's having a well boiled egg every morning which is quite surreal.

We'll hopefully do this for 6 months or so and then try a runny yolk.