when can they eat whole egg?

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snowleopard · 05/04/2006 16:54

In the hunt for nutritious stuff for DS to have as finger food I was thinking of making him a kind of tortilla omelette thing which I could cut into slices. But the info on when babies can have eggs is very contradictory and confusing - some books/sites say not till 1, others seems to think it's a great weaning food! He's almost 10 months old - can he? It would be cooked through.

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Mosschops30 · 05/04/2006 16:55

definately he can have it now, advice being given by hv's is anytime after 6 months.
Enjoy!

Piffle · 05/04/2006 16:58

DD was allergic, so do a little test first, although if he has had baked goods with egg in them he is most probably ok.
Evn given that, dd has outgrown her allergy in 2 years :)
She adores eggy things!

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snowleopard · 05/04/2006 16:59

If he was allergic what would happen? (sorry for my ignorance!)

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fruitful · 05/04/2006 16:59

Got any allergies in the family? If you have, then I'm not sure. If not, try him with a bit and see. Both my kids throw up after having eggs. Dd grew out of that aged about 24 months or so. DS is 13 months. He's had egg once, kind of by accident (stole a lot of pasta cooked in egg from my plate, and I forgot about the egg). And threw up afterwards. 5 minutes before the babysitter arrived - the first babysitter we'd had since he was born. Aagh! No more egg for him for at least a year!

But that is something to do with digestion rather than an allergy. Must be, he is alright with cakes etc.

Piffle · 05/04/2006 17:04

depends on how bad the allergy was.
DD came out in rash around her mouth, welts all over her neck and her eyes burned, she sneezed and vomited.
some kids do get life threatening anaphylactic allergy shock, but unlikely (I think) if your family is allergy free generally.

sunshinedays · 05/04/2006 17:44

My cook book suggested hard boiling egg so it's easier to seperate the white from the yolk then try the yolk mashed up on one day then on another try the mashed up white ... so it's easy to tell if there's an allergy for the yolk or the white

rummum · 05/04/2006 18:17

My son has an egg allergy. When he was about a year I gave him a piece of eggy bread.. within about 10 minutes he'd started sneezing.. I mean really sneezing with no break between them.. he started wheezing and coughing, his eyes went bloodshot and puffy and he had small hives/urticaria over his face... his nose was running and he just kept rubbing his whole face!

Now not knowing this was an allergic reaction I thought he was comming down with something and gave him calpol and put him to bed

Son is also allergic to dairy.. he's had this since birth. We had him allergy tested at basingstoke general hospital and he is allergic to dairy eggs and nuts also dust and pollen.
He now has an epi-pen.

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