Why is DS allergic to eggs at home, but not in take away?

[Jackaroo]

DS has had a severe allergy to eggs from 1st bite at 1yr old. Well, not anaphalaxsis, but projectile vomiting, redness around the mouth, streaming eyes and nose... enough to be a concern.

About a year later, he had a piece of cake by accident at nursery (he was supposed to be eating his own cake, and swiped a bit when they took their eye off him).. and was OK.

Since then he's had other cakes/biscuits and been fine.

At Christmas (he's now 4yrs old) he had some egg fried rice (I wasn't there, I ate later) and again, he was fine.

So, he asked for some for his supper, and I was delighted to make it for him. I'd seen the rice he'd had, and it definitely had egg in it (hence the name), but he has just complained of feeing sick, and suddenly couldn't finish his food etc.etc.. and when I gave him some phenergan, is now fine.

So, any ideas? The only thing I could think of is if they'd used powdered egg. Would that make a difference?

Any ideas welcome. I'll get him retested asap obviously....

Thanks

J

Well, I thought he had, Riven, which is why I wasn't too worried about what I served up today.

Given that he so quickly moved on to being able to eat cakes etc., I wasn't too concerned that he'd had the egg rice some 2 years later, and was certainly pleased when there were no ill effects.

So, it has been 3 years, in total, since he last had eggs in their "just cooked" state..

Now I think of it, he reacted at the weekend to a christening pudding - croquembouche? The tower of profiteroles? But he just got a rash around his mouth.. which he's never had from anything.

Now I'm really confused. Will make an appt. for the gp in the morning I think.

I can't offer any solutions sadly, but am just posting in solidarity. Both DSs (now 10 and 8) have always been sick or felt nauseous the instant they had egg. Over the years they have got used to not eating cake, and egg based things and it's not really much of a problem,
But sometimes they can eat it and sometimes they can't...A friend had them for tea and it turned out her meatballs had been coated in egg and fried- they were fine. But then some other random item with egg far down the list of ingredients will make them feel sick.
I just don't get it.

I think powdered egg can sometimes be ok, especially if there's only a small amount in food. DS2 is allergic to egg too and we have found this.

Thanks for posting, all of you. It's good to know I'm not going mad (or being a precious mother!)... have filled in an allergy form for school, saying he's not allowed eggs, but is allowed cakes and biscuits - I wonder what they think of me??

Thanks again,

J

I have a "thing" about eggs, as do my DC. I can eat yolk with no ill effects, and cakes and biscuits are Ok (though not egg fried rice ), and I can even eat meringues - but if I ate the white of a boiled/fried/poached/scrambled egg I'd have difficulties - either vomit or, er, painfully fast-tracked in the other direction. Quiche is also out. It seems to have something to do with the cooking method, but I'm damned if I can work out what it is.

its common for children to outgrow cooked egg allergy, and take longer to grow out of partially cooked or raw egg.

the allergy is mainly to the white of a egg, but just eating the yolk can be risky as its tood difficult to completely remove the white.

good chance of outgrowing compeletely, suggest testing via medical way, rather than home testing, just to be safe.

my son grew out of cooked egg allergy at 7, did briefly outgrow cooked egg allergy at 10, but has recently found raw egg a problem, now 13.

have heard of children outgrowing completly at 12, so there is a good chance of outgrowing, although some, like my son now are considered life long.