Is an egg an egg, in terms of allergy?

[gabbyraja]

My 2yo ds is allergic to eggs. It's worse when he eats fresh pastured organic eggs from the local farm. I'm wondering why he's allergic to chicken eggs, but not chicken. And if there are other eggs to which he wouldn't be allergic. Maybe it's a protein in chicken eggs, but goose, duck, quail, etc wouldn't have it? I know nothing about eggs...

[sosurreal09]

hmm I think the protein would be similar in all of those...

also some vax have egg so be careful and do some research.

[gabbyraja]

Oh, yes, we don't vax. Part of that decision was the egg allergy/intolerance.

Ds2 would get crusty eyes from egg, ds3 gets eczema on his face and his sleep suffers. The farm had only duck eggs today, so I figured we'd go ahead and try ds on them this week. Wish us luck!

[sosurreal09]

hope you guys can find a solution! we have so BTDT

[riomidwife]

This has come up for us too recently. We have a friend whose daughter can eat eggs form chickens that have had no wheat/gluten or soy, but she cannot tolerate commercial eggs of unknown diets.

[gabbyraja]

Originally Posted by riomidwife 

This has come up for us too recently. We have a friend who's daughter can eat eggs form chickens that have had no wheat/gluten or soy, but she cannot tolerate commercial eggs of unknown diets.

Hmmm... If it's something they are eating then it's unlikely to change if it's chicken or duck on the same farm (I'm assuming they'd be fed together). However, it may be different if the chicken or duck were from a different farm. Very interesting...

[kjbrown92]

Is it an allergy or an intolerance? My son is intolerant to both chicken and egg. The last time I tried him on egg, I chose quail egg, and he didn't know there was egg in the cake. It was the equivalent of 3 eggs in the bundt cake, I think, and he had a small slice. He vomited within 20 minutes. The last time I'd tried him on egg, he just got a stomachache. So I'm not trying any other eggs for now. But if it's an IgE allergy, I'd be careful since symptoms can get worse with each exposure.

[gabbyraja]

I've not had him tested. None of my kids will show a reaction to anything on a skin test, so I assume no on IgE. I'm learning that it's all related to their leaky guts and low HCI, so we're working hard on fixing that.

[kjbrown92]

Okay, someone else will hopefully correct me if I'm barking up the wrong tree... was it Molybdenum that you are supposed to increase if you react to sulfur containing foods like eggs? I remember trying whatever it was with him, but it didn't work for us.

Scratch tests are for IgE allergies.