Undercooked/'off' egg

[BatCave]

OK - I realise I'm probably being completely paranoid and overreacting here but I'd just like a little reassurance kick up the arse

Out for breakfast this morning I forgot to order my poached eggs well cooked, usually I wouldn't worry. But when I took a mouthful of the second egg it tasted really funny/disgusting then I looked and realised even some of the white wasn't cooked. I'd eaten about half the egg.

I've had some stomach pains this evening which have now gone, does anyone know if food poisoning would harm baby at all? I'm 8 weeks today. To be honest I'm probably completely overreacting but its worrying me.

The guy in the cafe said to me that it was probably pregnancy making me taste things funny - bloody cheek although he might be right and didn't even apologise! Said the eggs were fresh this morning.

How are you feeling now? I think it is highly unlikely that you need to worry. But the pregnancy panic is something I excel at so if you feel unwell in the night there's no harm in giving the dr a quick call in the morning.

Incidentally I have accused my DP of serving me dodgy food more than once throughout my 12 week pregnancy due to my taste buds and nose having superhuman strength despite everyone else finding it delicious.

Hi BatCave (cool name!)

The main reason they tell you to eat very well cooked eggs is to avoid getting salmonella. The risk of getting salmonella from an egg is exactly the same as before you got pregnant. Would the egg have concerned you this much if you weren't pregnant?

The risk is to you, not the baby directly. If you got salmonella you would be very poorly but at the stage you're at the baby needs very little in the way of nourishment from you. When you are 11 weeks, the blood starts to circulate between you and the baby through the placenta so that would have more impact then.

Things like blue cheese and undercooked steak are much more of a concern as they carry bacteria which can directly harm the baby and cause m/c.

If your stomach pains have gone I wouldn't be stressing. Usually sickness from salmonella kicks in between 4-6 hours.

Best Wishes

Penny x

Im sure you're fine, im still eating runny egg, occasionally that includes the whites too cos I'm haphazard when cooking. Just remember it if you do get unwell..

I had food poisoning in France at about 4 weeks not even knowing I was pregnant. Was horribly sick with the runs for 48 hours. It hasn't had any effect on my pregnancy! Baby is currently booting the hell out of me at 35 weeks.

Thank you all for your replies,

Loudee - never thought I'd be such a worrier! And i think perhaps my tastebuds are very much 'off'.

Penny your advice was very reassuring and I'm pretty sure now I'm turning into a completely neurotic mentalist! I have actually suffered with (confirmed) salmonella poisoning in the past so maybe the risk feels a bit more real for me.

tentative - I normally wouldn't worry about them having runny yolks really, I did last pg but got a bit fed up with hard yolks!

Joy- this is very reassuring too, and enjoy those kicks/gymnastics x

But anyway, no more pains and back to my normal sicky self so guess I was worrying over nothing.

But thank you all!