Egg allergy?

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My 8mo DD had scrambled eggs at the weekend and was violently and forcefully sick about an hour later she was miserable for the rest of the day and spent hours wretching thereafter. Eggs were in date and well cooked. This is the second time she's had just eggs on their own, first time she was fine. She's also had them in pancakes and banana bread (all home made) so is this likely to be an allergy or just a one off? Under her chin and lower cheeks were angry red quite a few hours later.

GP would like us to omit eggs from her diet and have her tested which I'm happy to do. Just curious as to why she'd be ok first time but not second time.

TIA

because she had eggs in a different form, some children can tolerate eggs in foods that are cooked at a high heat.
this changes the protein structure of the eggs.

eggs partially cooked, liked scrambled eggs, can cause a reaction.

however, until you have your child tested , it would be advisable to avoid until then.

good news is that egg is outgrown by many , and if your child can already tolerate well cooked egg, it does look more promising.

good luck.

allergies never show up the first time, it's usually the second or later time that you get a reaction when body has had time to develop antibodies to that particular antigen.

My sister couldn't eat quiche, omlette, egg sarnies etc but could eat cakes and pancakes. She had chronic pain in her stomach if she ate things with eggs in so just cut them out completely. Think she's fine now and can tolerate them well.

snorkie, thats nearly right, but can be wrong as well!

skin exposure can be a cause, but for most of todays allergic infants, it can start before birth, the ability to develop a imume system just waiting to find a trigger.

my typical allergic march child has always reacted to his allergens at first exposure, touch for nuts, and instant at first taste to many others.

he is allergic to tree pollen, mainly because he was a spring baby, he is allergic to dustmite, something he was exposed to at birth.

the tree pollen leads on to his kiwi allergy, and his peanut, springs forth his allergy to other legumes.

his tree pollen alleryy did cause hay fever , but now outgrown.

his egg allergy often goes hand in hand with peanut, something to do with similar protein strands.
was exposed to dog at birth, on other peoples clothes who owned dogs, and when in same room that a dog had been in.

severe allergy to dogs, and cats.

and so on and on and on.

so , no, wouldnt say that its always safely eaten at first all the time.

however for adults and older children, allergies can develop out of the blue.
a immune system changing, (think teens and all that change!) for those woman going through the menopause, shellfish allergies seem to be a common thread.........

allergies are a complete pain, thats the only constant in it all.

DD2 is/was allergic to lightly cooked egg - reacted to scrambled egg (first time ill, second time hives) though the first time she wasn't as violently ill as you describe and it may not have been the very first time she had them. we don't have any allergies in the family and i wasn't really looking out for it

she was tested at 1 yrs old and came out quite strongly allergic to egg even though she had had plenty of cake etc without a problem.

we have avoided quiche, scrambled egg etc for the last few years. she had a pancake recently and was ok. i hope they will test her again at 5 as i am 90% sure she is no longer allergic to egg.

oh and many countries recommend you do not give eggs to children under 1 year due to high allergic reaction. UK is quite an exception that we think it is a great early food.

Thanks for all the info I had no idea that a child could be ok at first exposure but not at second. I'll definitely cut them out until we have her tested although I'm sure this will take many months for an appointment. Thanks again.

I ment first exposure, rather than first ingestion bridewolf, but you are quite right that it's not always easy to identify when that exposure might have happened.

To the op, ds had egg allergy from scrambled egg as a baby - he had eaten quorn (derived from egg) on one previous occasion. Later on he had a severe reaction from merely touching egg white, but has grown out of it now.

Thanks snorkie. What age did your DS grow out if it?

Difficult to say really, as we cut egg completely out of his diet. He had just a few bad reactions when he accidently touched or ate egg - the last being when he was approx 5 I think. Then I really don't think he had any exposure until he was around 8 or 9, when he inadvertantly had a biscuit that had egg in with no ill effects. Over the next couple of years or so he started eating cake and things with small amounts of cooked egg in. He still won't eat very eggy things like quich, omelette, merangue and even pancakes (and of course boiled, scrambled, fried etc eggs) as he doesn't like the taste. Whether that's a residual allergy thing or just a consequence of never eating them when he was young I'm not sure, but I suspect the latter as he has no ill effects if he tries a mouthful other than to say yuk!

We were told that the best chance of growing out of it was to have no exposure at all for as long as possible, so that's what we did. It was a right pain - egg creeps into everything (pasta, ice cream, biscuits, pizza bases etc). One italian restaurant we went to could offer him nothing except salad.