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Just wanted to share some happy news

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Sunflower100 · 09/01/2009 08:44

Since I'm generally quite miserable on here.......dd (nearly 2 and range of allergies) had a baked egg challenge yesterday in hospital and she did fine! She can eat cake and yorkshire puds!!
Thank you to the tips people gave me for the day- lots of snacks, toys and also snacks for me!!
We're going to do skin prick tests for the strawberry, lentil, pineapple and nuts in May.

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trixymalixy · 09/01/2009 10:00

Woo-hoo!!!

Stories like this give me hope for my DS.

Did she pas an egg skin prick test before they did the baked egg challenge?

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Sunflower100 · 09/01/2009 10:46

No she didn't pass the skin prick test (raw egg). It showed that he allergy hadn't improved really but the specialist persuaded me the challenge was worth a try.

It felt very counter-intuitive persuading her to eat a fairy cake I had made I must say- but she ended up eating a whole fairy cake by the end of the day. Something I never thought I would see.
All best wishes for your dcs.

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trixymalixy · 09/01/2009 13:16

Ooh that's interesting. My DS failed the egg skin prick in September.

I managed to give him egg pasta by mistake in November. He didn't react to it at all, it wasn't until a couple of days later that I realised it was egg pasta.

I'm wondering whether it would be worth asking for a baked egg challenge at our next appointment.

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Sunflower100 · 09/01/2009 13:34

That sounds very promising. I think cake is more 'cooked' than egg pasta as the nurse said to still go gradually introducing foods and egg pasta would be later than cake and puds.

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Sunflower100 · 09/01/2009 13:35

There was a 9 year old boy doing a 'actual' egg challenge and all went well - so that was encouraging too.

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Friendlypizzaeater · 09/01/2009 13:44

Thats brilliant - My LO is allergic to egg but can eat Yorkshire pudding (thou if he has too much he gets exema on his earlobe ???) My Doctor did tell me 90% of kids do grow out of the egg allergy by 8 and my LO is now 6 and he is getting more tolerant

greycat · 05/02/2009 20:06

i am intrigued! my dd (age 3) has egg allergy and is desperate to have eggs back in her diet. she is only egg allergy =1. can someone please tell me what the baked egg challenge is?

BlueBumedFly · 05/02/2009 20:08

Wonderful news Sunflower!! Fantastic, I am always so happy to hear good news. Hope the May tests go well. xx

tatt · 05/02/2009 22:33

congratulation sunflower. greycat cooked egg is less allergenic than raw or lightly cooked egg. So when they suspect a child may be outgrowing egg allergy they test first with something where the egg has been well heated - like cake.

greycat · 06/02/2009 16:42

thank u. i have given dd a cake before and it seemed there wasn't much of a reaction, it all makes sense now . i guess they just do it under controlled conditions in the hospital?

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