mmr/ egg allergy

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Just wondering what to do...
Ds (14 months) has been diagnosed with allergy to egg but only through skin prick (which I believe isn't 100% reliable) He has also been diagnosed with a number of other food allergies including cows milk protein which we have seen him react to and it is quite severe. The skin prick showed a greater reaction to egg.
I asked the allergy consultant about the mmr jab, whether he should have the jab in hospital incase of a reaction to the egg. She said she would discuss with a colleague and get back to me. Anyway upshot is she has said to have the jab at dr's surgery as ds's reaction is not anaphylactic. The thing is we don't know if it's anaphylactic as he has never had egg (apart from skin prick)

So do I just go for jab at gp's or speak to allergy people again? Anybody have experience of this?

Sorry for long ramble. Could probably have said that a little more succinctly (sp?)

My daughter is severely allergic to egg and had the mmr at the hospital as a precaution, though I'm not sure why as I believe that it is no longer grown in egg albumin...?

Needless to say she was fine (aside from the usual sore arm and slight fever later on). Any kind of reaction would be better than measles I think!

Good luck!

My ds had his first one done in the hospital (not my choice, I was more than happy to have it done at the docs surgery) and had no reaction whatsoever. Blood tests had confirmed a fairly high level allergy.

Like nellymoo says, I am pretty sure that they don't grow the stuff in egg.....

Also, it says on the patient leaflet that it is safe for people with an egg allergy. I do not for one minute imagine that a giant pharma company would state such a thing unless there was no egg in it!!! They would be far too open to being sued.

We had moved house, and GPs by the time the booster came round, and the new surgery were happy to do it there rather than send him to the hospital. And again, zero reaction.

Apparently the MMr has not been cultured with egg proteins for about 3 yrs now and according to Prof at the chirldens hosp in bristol it is SAFE for egg allergy children!

Have been through this 4 times with 4 children......no reactions.. 1 is truly allergic to egg. Um -if your child reacted to egg on a skin prick either the test is uunreliable or your child has had exposure. A reaction generally only occurs after a second exposure to the subsatance.

HTH

DS1 has egg allergy, tested "off the scale" in skin prick test. We were told MMR was fine as no longer grown on eggs, he had it with no ill effects. Hth

My ds has/had an egg allergy, I don't know if he's still allergic as haven't tried him with egg recently, but even so his allergy wasn't severe just came up in hives when he ate egg or mayonnaise adn once he broke a box of eggs and he had hives on his skin where the raw egg touched him.
Although he eats cakes and biscuits and other things that contain egg with no problem.

He was never tested, I just told the HV/doc about it and when he had the MMR last year they said he had to have it in the hospital. I would have been fine with him having it at the GP bu they said they didn't want him to have it there just in case (no reaction to it at all).

He has just had a letter about the swine flu jab and the doctors surgery called to say that if I was giving it to him he would need a different jab, at another clinic that doesn't contain eggs (or however it's made).

Meant to say, it may depend on your area where they want him to have it.

Hi - MMR fine is fine. Swine flu then there are 2 jabs and one of them is not suitable for egg intolerant/allergic(if you opt to have it for your LO) so you need to check of this. Yellow fever is another to be cautious of but that is only if you are travelling to high rish area.

thanks so much for responses. Will just go for it at gp's then. Feeling reassured
Interesting point M44 re:exposure. Not sure how he has come into contact with it as we have been extremely cautious after discovering cmp allergy at 8 weeks. he is allergic to cmp, egg, wheat, soya, peanuts cod, gah can't remember the rest (must check!) i was really careful not to give him any of those things when weaning (stuck to fresh veg/ fruit/ meat - no jars) as didn't want to risk another reaction (before finding out for sure) Maybe through breast milk then? Interesting..

Thanks again all x