Anyone elses bubba allergic to eggs?
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Topic: Anyone elses bubba allergic to eggs?
Posted By: Emmecat
Subject: Anyone elses bubba allergic to eggs?
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 9:16pm
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We just had a skin prick test for Clodagh today, expecting to see an immediate reaction to pollens...instead we got an immediate and rather decent reaction to eggs! Anyhoo, now we know and we have to avoid them for the next year and then go back and re-test. I'm not that bothered as I hardly eat them anyway and since I was a vegan for ages, know how to bake really well without them. Just interested if any of you ladies have had bubbas react to eggs as well? Did they outgrow the allergy? She's also allergic to dust mites and cats. I find that more disturbing lol. -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 10:13pm
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Spencer had a mild reaction to eggs which he has since out grown. We introduced eggs to him at age two in baking and all was good and he now eats egg fried rice etc (he won't eat anything too eggy just cos he doesn't like it).
Luckily it's not too hard to steer clear of, only issues is baking at other peoples houses if you go to coffee groups etc as as they get older they want what the other kiddies are having. But what I always did was made sure I took something with me that was ok for Spencer to eat and something that he likes enough to distract him away from what others are eating. I'm having a coffee group here tomorrow and have a little girl coming who is poss anaphalactic (sp?) to eggs, I will tell her mum about this thread, she use to come on here but hasn't been on for a while. Another little boy who is coming is gluten intolerant, then my boy and one of the other boys were off dairy but now ok. Thank god for organ outback crackers, free of pretty much everything! Spencer came up as being allergic to cats but our doc said he would just have that as allergic kids tend to react to what is in their environment so because we have cats he reacts to them, but apparently it is good to keep them exposed. Odd cos kind of opposite with food allergies. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 10:50pm
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Who those that don't know. How do they react with egg via breast milk or via eating??
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 12:07am
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My daughter Samantha has an anaphylatic allergy to eggs.
Like you we actually got her tested thinking it was an allergy to something else. Thank goodness she hadn't actually eaten egg at that point. Her allergy has actually grown more severe in the past 2 years rather than lessened. Also like you I noticed when i was breastfeeding her as a little baby but never put two and two together. She would have a terrible tummy ache and her skin would flair into excema after I had eaten egg. Unfortunatley she isn't able to tolerate it cooked in baking either so we use the Orgran Egg replacement and it works great in everything we have made so far except for fritters 
It is looking like my son is also going to have the allergy as he also has had very similar reactions to my breastmilk after I have eaten them. It is amazing what you notice when you know what you are looking out for! Like you say it is actually not that much of a hassle. We have found it easier just not to have anything in the house with egg in it. Saves a lot of worry. The Allergy NZ website has great information about what egg can go under on labelling in food. Just be aware that it is not always listed as Egg! The biggest problem we have is that people (especially our family) don't take her allergy seriously enough. We have even turned up to our in laws for lunch to find Quiche on the table! What part of 'life threatening allergies' do people not understand  We have to be especially vigilant that her friends wash their hands before they come and play now as she recently had a bad skin reaction on her wrists and hands from a little friend touching her after eating a cracker with egg in it!
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 7:26am
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Cory has an allergy to wheat and egg.
Wheat brings up his eczema but egg in anyway shape or form brings him up in instant hives...he isnt allowed egg at all until 3.5 when they will try him again then. Orgran do an egg substitute which i use all the time in baking etc and you can and others cant tell that there is no egg in there. Have the peads told you what to watch out for? There is a website www.mfd.co.nz and that will let you know what foods have no eggs in it and are safe. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 9:42am
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Cool, thanks heaps for thise replies guys I'm honestly not that bothered about it in general, like I said I've learnt to cook and bake lots of yummy egg free and dairy adn wheat free if ness) recipies from my vegan days. I never faded away lol ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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I have a feeling some of my extended family will be difficult about this too....mainly cos I"m raising Clodagh as vegetarian anyway, no doubt they'll think I'm trying her along vegan lines or something (not that that would be bad if I did..I *am* her Mama after all!). But I"m not, just as well I got a letter from paed adn the skin test results to show them. I also took a photo of her wee arm.... 
Posted By: soph
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 9:56am
My 6half years old son and my 4 years old daughter is severe allergic to egg and still is 
They are just like "mum2sam", very bad ezcema as babies due to trace of egg via breastfeeding. Terrible winds!  and colic-type symptoms. I did thought it might be egg, my GP fobbed me off. When he ate egg for first time, he was rushed to hospital, you should see GP's face next time I went to see him and when I told him what happened. Since I stopped eating egg and avoiding egg in his diet, his ezcema has disappeared!
Now he tell me straight away that he has accident ate tiny trace of egg, in foods that been x-com in factory by tingling in his tongue and throat starting to swelling up. My daughter is still learning to understand the signs of allergy reactions. Lucky my third child is ok with egg, not sure about my 4th/youngest child as not wean yet. I don't use egg replacer for cooking, I used other form like banana, oil etc. |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 9:49pm
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Interesting how they react.
My friend's 6 year old has an epipen for nuts & her school in Oz is going nut free. One mother said to her, oh it's ok if my child sits next to yours with peanut butter or nutella sandwiches. Her reply was, how would you like my daughter to sit next to yours with a loaded gun. The other mother said oh I didnt think of it like that. Familys can be the worst culprits..how many times do you need to tell them that they can't have xxx & you hear back oh just a little bit of xxx won't hurt! ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 03 February 2010 at 10:16pm
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yup on the eggs here too (plus dairy, cats & dogs). Natalie's reaction (via RAST testing) has reduced but is still moderate.
Not much to add to everyone else's helpful suggestions, but did want to point out that if you are immunising (I have a feeling you might have decided not to?), there is egg albumin in a couple of the vaccines, so you do need to be aware of that too. Nothing major, but something to think about. Natalie hasn't reacted at all to the vaccines with egg traces in them, but we did separate them out so we could be sure, and had extra monitoring for her after them. -------------  
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 8:56am
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Hi Blondy....yeap you're right, we're not vaccinating so just as well by the sounds of it! Although I *did* get a wee lecture from the paed before the skin prick test about the current measles epidemic blah blah...I pointed out (again) that Clodagh is too young anyway to recieve this shot...then we found out about her allergy and she backtracked somewhat and said she 'should' still be ok to get it as the MMR is made out of yolk, not white, which Clodgah is more allergic too.... ...I said thanks but no thanks lol. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 1:36pm
We vaccinated Samantha, but ended up having the MMR done seperately so she could be closely monitored afterwards. They were great and had epi pens etc on the ready just in case. Turns out there was actually nothing to worry about in her case thank goodness
I think the 'white' part of the egg is what most people have the allergy to. Also be aware that bee vemon is made up of a very similar protein so a lot of people with a serious egg allergies can also have a serious reaction to bee stings. We haven't had to deal with that yet thank goodness - but it is something I am glad to be aware of for when the time comes ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: soph
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 2:05pm
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My children had vaccinations and MMR without any problem too despite eldest two are severe allergic to egg.
Only vaccination they didn't have is seasonal flu jab because it contain egg, espeically you need to be aware that swine flu jab does contain egg. There is egg-free swine flu medication but I am not sure if it is available in NZ yet as it is in UK. |
Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 3:19pm
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We're not vaxxing for other reasons, the allergy to eggs was just a conincidence that's interesting about the protein being similar to bee stings though...I"m midly allerhic to bees and Mum is severely allergic...jeez clodagh may well have that problem too! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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