Hives after eating an egg

[BooBudolphMeowson]

I've tried my 8 mo who is baby led weaning on a couple of bits of egg before, scrambled egg and fried egg but he didn't eat very much.

I gave him a hard boiled egg this morning and he ate loads but then broke out in hives, only lasted around an hour though.

What does this mean? He has a couple of other skin problems at the minute - awful nappy rash and baby eczema in a few places.

How long should be we avoiding eggs for? Is there anything else I need to do?

hi, yes it sounds like he has a an egg allergy, this happened to my son years ago! just gave him piriton and it settled down, my son was ok with cooked egg or egg in anything but couldn't have anything where the egg was rawish e.g. merangues, mallow, home made carbonara also couldn't touch raw eggs. still the same now at 12 :)

DD2 didn't have a noticeable reaction the first time she had egg. The second time she had egg (accidental exposure after allergy tests) she came out in hives and had slightly swollen lips after the minuscule amount of egg that would be in a small crumb of cake. Was really quite scary.

I would suggest talking to your GP about allergy testing. We were lucky in that after the various tests the docs reckoned DD wasn't at high risk of anaphylaxis and we don't need to carry an epipen, but we do need to avoid all egg and any exposure even by touch for the foreseeable future.

It is definitely possible to outgrow the allergy, a lot of children are no longer allergic by school-age.

Thanks so much - I wasn't sure if it was worth a docs visit or not. Glad your DD is ok

Definitely get her tested because many foods, especially prepared foods, but even icing sugar, contain egg. Vaccines too. Egg allergy can develop with each exposure resulting in a more severe reaction. Proteine reactions can cause anaphalactic shock requiring an epipen.

please pop in to the allergy section on this site if you need more support.

lots of us have vast experience with egg allergy!

My DS was exactly the same. We avoided eggy egg as we called it - scrambled egg, boiled egg, fried egg etc but he could tolerate cooked eggs in cakes etc. Challenged him at age 6 and he is no longer allergic but doesn't like egg - no surprises there!

Apparently it's the most common food allergy for a child to grow out of. (Of course not all children do)

Thanks for the replies

Penny, did you take him to the docs?

Def doctors, and ask for allergy testing. This isn't something you can experiment at home with cause subsequent reactions could be worse.

Also, if you haven't introduced peanuts yet then get (specialist) medical advice about doing so, because about 50% of children who are allergic to egg are also peanut allergic. If you have introduced peanuts and he was fine with them then its OK to carry on.

There is an allergy board on here and its very good.

My ds1 had allergies to milk, peanut and celery when he was little. We had to be very careful for a few years but he'd grown out of them all by 7.

No we didn't but only because DH is a GP and DS's godfather is an immunologist. If this wasn't the case then I most certainly would have been at the GPs.

Brilliant, you're a fountain of knowledge over here! Have posted over in the allergies section thank you