egg allergy

🎄So it is 🎅Christmas, and how many of you are 🍰 baking with 🥚eggs?⁣
‼️This is probably one of the seasons where we should be cautious with this type of allergy!⁣

In what comes to allergies in children, and due to the nature of baby´s weaning, egg sits almost at par with 🥛cow’s milk as the most prevalent form of allergy.⁣⁣ This is closely followed by 🥜peanut allergy.⁣⁣

⚠️Up to now, it was believed roughly 50% of children would outgrow their egg allergy by 3 years of age, with that percentage increasing to roughly 66% at 5 years of age. But it seems those percentages are decreasing with time.⁣⁣
❓The reason for that is unknown still.⁣⁣

✅So the earlier a diagnosis and intervention is made, the higher will be the chances for children to outgrow their allergy.⁣⁣


















➡️The initial step is to perform skin prick tests, eventually followed by an open food challenge to baked egg.⁣⁣

😊If the child passes this step, they will have roughly 95% chance of outgrowing their egg allergy.
😔As you might imagine, failing that challenge will give them less than 5% of outgrowing the allergy.⁣⁣

⚠️𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:⁣⁣
▶️If you suspect your child has an egg allergy, don’t give up or become demoralized.⁣⁣
▶️There is a pretty good chance he/she will outgrow it.⁣⁣

⛔Exclude egg and peanut from their diet, exception if already eating peanut.⁣⁣

⚕Ask for a Paediatric Allergy referral and see if their department will also involve a Paediatric Allergy Dietitian.⁣⁣

✳Very important to understand that when we speak about removing chicken eggs from the diet, we also talk about removing eggs from other birds due to cross-reactivity.⁣⁣
🚫The birds’ eggs you should also exclude are 🦃turkey, 🦆duck, 🦢goose, seagull and quail.⁣


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