Feeling sick after eating eggs?
My_Butt
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I can eat sweets with eggs, and anything with egg products, but if I eat a few eggs (hard boiled, fried, over easy) I get really sick to my stomach. I barfed last month after eating an egg sandwich with salsa past the expiration date. So I blamed the salsa. But I just had 3 hard boiled eggs and my stomach is in knots.
In my teens I remember eating scrambled eggs on a Friday, and throwing them up Monday.
I read it could be an allergy, but then I read it could be the sulfur. Anybody dealt with this before? I own chickens, and I want my girls' eggs.
In my teens I remember eating scrambled eggs on a Friday, and throwing them up Monday.
I read it could be an allergy, but then I read it could be the sulfur. Anybody dealt with this before? I own chickens, and I want my girls' eggs.
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I had this issue with eggs when I was younger for some reason too. See what happens when you eat just the egg whites for a while. I want to say I overcame my allergy to them by eating the egg whites, then slowly incorporating the yolk, a little bit over time (i.e... If I would eat 3 eggs, I would just eat the whites for a while, then maybe in a few weeks, add 1 yolk, a few weeks later, add a second yolk, etc...). Had the same problem with whole milk when I was younger and did the same slow incorporating protocol.0
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so stop eating eggs.
problem solved.1 -
HAve you tried duck eggs? We also own chickens, ducks and turkeys for eggs. We have a family that regularly buys our duck eggs from us because the girls are allergic to chicken and turkey eggs but not duck eggs. Their allergist recommended it and we are the only duck egg sellers they've found so far.
Just a thought, since I didnt realize people could be allergic to one type of egg but not another but apparently it is common enough the allergist knew.0 -
It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.1 -
mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Actually you can react to an egg allergy several days after eating them. My son has eosinophilic esophagitis caused by food allergies and we are working closely with a pediatric gastroenterologist to diagnose exactly what foods he's allergic to. She's explained that with food allergies it takes about 3 days to get out of your system and it is often hard to tell what made you sick because it could have been something you ate 3 days ago. My sons symptoms are gastrointestinal and it does take about 3 days for him to react once we introduce a new food.
Op, it's important to know if you are allergic to eggs or not because you'll want to avoid them completely even if you don't get immediately sick. The symptoms can progress and build up over time and be more serious later.
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Stop eating eggs. Determine if you actually have an allergy.0
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First of all, two of you are very negative and not supportive one bit. So why are you here?
Second off, eggs are healthy and I have six chickens giving me free eggs. I don't want to stop eating them, I was curious if others had this feeling.1 -
First of all, two of you are very negative and not supportive one bit. So why are you here?
Second off, eggs are healthy and I have six chickens giving me free eggs. I don't want to stop eating them, I was curious if others had this feeling.
Because their advice is solid and being blunt/tactless isn't negative.
You would not eat something on Friday and then throw it up 3 days later. You'd have already pooped it out. If you are allergic to eggs, then stop eating them. I used to be mildly allergic to eggs and stopped eating them because they upset my stomach. Then my allergy went away on its own and they stopped bothering my stomach. So now I eat them.
Neither decision required others to help me decide what was best for my digestive health....
You can either stop eating something that makes you sick or you can keep eating something that makes you sick and continue getting sick. Whether it's the sulfur or the egg in its entirety doesn't matter because you can't change its properties to avoid getting sick. So, like, your call. Choosing sickness over feeling good just because you own chickens though is kind of a silly as frak choice, but to each his/her own.-1 -
My niece has a similar issue, she can eat baked goods made with eggs but eggs on their own cause her to break out in hives. My mother also can not eat eggs on their own because they cause gi pain and sometimes vomiting. Sadly the only thing they can do is not eat eggs.0
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mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Not true... food poisoning takes about 48hours to have an effect on your system...2 -
mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Actually you can react to an egg allergy several days after eating them. My son has eosinophilic esophagitis caused by food allergies and we are working closely with a pediatric gastroenterologist to diagnose exactly what foods he's allergic to. She's explained that with food allergies it takes about 3 days to get out of your system and it is often hard to tell what made you sick because it could have been something you ate 3 days ago. My sons symptoms are gastrointestinal and it does take about 3 days for him to react once we introduce a new food.
Op, it's important to know if you are allergic to eggs or not because you'll want to avoid them completely even if you don't get immediately sick. The symptoms can progress and build up over time and be more serious later.
Vomiting one's stomach contents as a reaction would not take 3 days. A gastro reaction out of the other end? Sure. Maybe.
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Why would you ingest something that you're convinced is making you sick? That makes little sense to me. Can you not confirm it's an allergy unless it's worth the nausea to you?0
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You would not eat something on Friday and then throw it up 3 days later. You'd have already pooped it out. If you are allergic to eggs, then stop eating them. I used to be mildly allergic to eggs and stopped eating them because they upset my stomach. Then my allergy went away on its own and they stopped bothering my stomach. So now I eat them.
Neither decision required others to help me decide what was best for my digestive health....
You can either stop eating something that makes you sick or you can keep eating something that makes you sick and continue getting sick. Whether it's the sulfur or the egg in its entirety doesn't matter because you can't change its properties to avoid getting sick. So, like, your call. Choosing sickness over feeling good just because you own chickens though is kind of a silly as frak choice, but to each his/her own.
Again...really? stop giving false information. Food poisoning or allergies take 48 hours to have an impact on your system. Source: years of training on this as hospitality manager where I have dealt with many complaints for food poisoning...
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giannigreco83 wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Not true... food poisoning takes about 48hours to have an effect on your system...
That's not an allergic reaction, though.
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First of all, two of you are very negative and not supportive one bit. So why are you here?
Second off, eggs are healthy and I have six chickens giving me free eggs. I don't want to stop eating them, I was curious if others had this feeling.
Try to do an allergy test...I think it would help... it you have no allergy or intolerance, then try to overcome it maybe by eating with an english muffin or something else....but make an effort not to be biased towards eggs from now on because you felt sick before...
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mamapeach910 wrote: »giannigreco83 wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Not true... food poisoning takes about 48hours to have an effect on your system...
That's not an allergic reaction, though.
no I don't think so either... but as you said..if she had an allergy she would be feeling sick from other products containing eggs which she doesn't... so I guess she doesn't have an allergy...I was just pointing out that if you eat something on a friday you can perfectly vomit it on a monday... now she is also probably building a negative bias towards eggs because of those episodes...it happened to me when, as a european, I discovered PB and jelly.... I just can't ingest jelly anymore lol
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Why don't you just stop eating eggs? They are full of saturated fat, cholesterol, and carcinogens- surley it will be good that you wont miss them?-5
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I can eat sweets with eggs, and anything with egg products, but if I eat a few eggs (hard boiled, fried, over easy) I get really sick to my stomach. I barfed last month after eating an egg sandwich with salsa past the expiration date. So I blamed the salsa. But I just had 3 hard boiled eggs and my stomach is in knots.
In my teens I remember eating scrambled eggs on a Friday, and throwing them up Monday.
I read it could be an allergy, but then I read it could be the sulfur. Anybody dealt with this before? I own chickens, and I want my girls' eggs.
It could also be a result of an underlying digestive issue, probably best to check with your doctor for sure to find out if you are allergic and if not, what could be causing the reaction.0 -
There are plenty of healthy foods that people just can't eat due to either allergy or intolerance. In fact, if you have eggs from "home-raised" chickens and you're still getting sick, I'd just stop eating them because it's not as if your getting your eggs from some hormone-laden factory farm; you probably do have a food intolerance. You can get good sources of protein elsewhere. I went through something similar with milk and some dairy. I couldn't drink it when pregnant with my daughter or several years afterwards, so I took calcium supplements and stuck to milk in forms that didn't bother me like yogurt and hard cheeses. I now have an occasional glass and it doesn't bother me. Stop eating the eggs for a while and try again in 6 months to a year.0
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sorbus33rowan wrote: »Why don't you just stop eating eggs? They are full of saturated fat, cholesterol, and carcinogens- surley it will be good that you wont miss them?
What????
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giannigreco83 wrote: »You would not eat something on Friday and then throw it up 3 days later. You'd have already pooped it out. If you are allergic to eggs, then stop eating them. I used to be mildly allergic to eggs and stopped eating them because they upset my stomach. Then my allergy went away on its own and they stopped bothering my stomach. So now I eat them.
Neither decision required others to help me decide what was best for my digestive health....
You can either stop eating something that makes you sick or you can keep eating something that makes you sick and continue getting sick. Whether it's the sulfur or the egg in its entirety doesn't matter because you can't change its properties to avoid getting sick. So, like, your call. Choosing sickness over feeling good just because you own chickens though is kind of a silly as frak choice, but to each his/her own.
Again...really? stop giving false information. Food poisoning or allergies take 48 hours to have an impact on your system. Source: years of training on this as hospitality manager where I have dealt with many complaints for food poisoning...
Digestion occurs within 2 days. 3 days is more than 2 days. She would have already digested the eggs. Meaning she would be throwing up OTHER food, even if she was reacting to the eggs she ate 3 days prior.
I've also reacted to eggs, and to gluten (sensitivity, no diagnosed allergy for the latter but diagnosed allergy for the former). My reactions were always within the same day of consuming the food item. So... doesn't universally take 2 days for someone to react to something they eat. But it does take about 2 days to digest something - from eating to pooping it out.0 -
My step-mom can eat hard boiled eggs and foods with eggs cooked in them without a problem. But scrambled, fried, over easy, etc. makes her sick within 30 minutes. So, it is possible you have a sensitivity to eggs, unless they're cooked in something else.0
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giannigreco83 wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »giannigreco83 wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »It sounds like you have a psychological issue with them, because, um... you wouldn't have thrown up eggs you ate on a Friday on a Monday. You digest things more quickly than that. AND were it an allergy thing, eggs in baked goods would bother you too.
Just stop trying to eat eggs.
Not true... food poisoning takes about 48hours to have an effect on your system...
That's not an allergic reaction, though.
no I don't think so either... but as you said..if she had an allergy she would be feeling sick from other products containing eggs which she doesn't... so I guess she doesn't have an allergy...I was just pointing out that if you eat something on a friday you can perfectly vomit it on a monday... now she is also probably building a negative bias towards eggs because of those episodes...it happened to me when, as a european, I discovered PB and jelly.... I just can't ingest jelly anymore lol
Yeah, I have foods I'm like that with too. Threw up after eating them for whatever reason, and the taste of them coming back up turned me off them for GOOD. Cashews for me, among others.
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My daughter has a bad reaction to eating eggs...not if its cooked in something and a small amount, like with cakes or whatever... but to just sit and eat quiche or scrambled eggs etc... within a couple hours her stomach is in knots and she feels pretty horrible the rest of the day. By the next day she is fine though.
Having said that..she can eat hard boiled eggs, but as long as she eats only the whites and not the yolk, she seems to be fine. But even then, she cant really have much of it without feeling blah...so even making stuff out of just egg whites wouldn't help her out too much. For the most part she avoids eating straight up eggs.
Wish I could suggest something to help, but have been trying to find a way for kiddo to be able to eat eggs for years now, but no dice.0 -
giannigreco83 wrote: »You would not eat something on Friday and then throw it up 3 days later. You'd have already pooped it out. If you are allergic to eggs, then stop eating them. I used to be mildly allergic to eggs and stopped eating them because they upset my stomach. Then my allergy went away on its own and they stopped bothering my stomach. So now I eat them.
Neither decision required others to help me decide what was best for my digestive health....
You can either stop eating something that makes you sick or you can keep eating something that makes you sick and continue getting sick. Whether it's the sulfur or the egg in its entirety doesn't matter because you can't change its properties to avoid getting sick. So, like, your call. Choosing sickness over feeling good just because you own chickens though is kind of a silly as frak choice, but to each his/her own.
Again...really? stop giving false information. Food poisoning or allergies take 48 hours to have an impact on your system. Source: years of training on this as hospitality manager where I have dealt with many complaints for food poisoning...
The point is that she wouldn't throw up the actual food 3 days later.
Food poisoning is a reaction to the pathogen that the food carried. You're just clouding the issue.
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These little anecdotes sound like picky eaters have convinced their families that they're the specialest snowflakes walking.-2
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I have the same problem. I tried eating egg white alone, and my stomach rejected that too. If the egg is mixed into breads or cakes or cookies, etc., then my stomach will not reject them. If it's a quiche or omelet, stand back. It won't take 3 minutes before the stomach reacts. Hardboiled or scrambled - don't even THINK about it.
I've tried French toast and that creates some queasiness, but I can still manage to keep it down so long as it's not TOO eggy.
Even so, I'm curious enough to want to experiment with custard. That's eggy, right? So...if I can eat custard...maybe there is hope. On the other hand...custard isn't exactly a health food and no one here is going to suggest eating custard for the protein or nutrition.0 -
For those of you saying 'why continue eating eggs if I'm convinced they're making me sick', I just found this out TODAY.
The last time I threw up, I blamed it on dehydration. The last time I felt sick from hard boiled eggs, I assumed it was from an energy drink I had afterwards.
It wasn't until I ate breakfast this morning that I finally considered the eggs to be the source.0 -
mamapeach910 wrote: »These little anecdotes sound like picky eaters have convinced their families that they're the specialest snowflakes walking.
What is your problem? If a food makes someone sick, then they must be "the specialest snowflakes walking"? So if a food item doesn't make you feel ill, then it can't make someone else feel ill? The OP asked if anyone had dealt with getting sick from eggs before. And yes, other people have. Just because you haven't doesn't mean that others are making it up just to be difficult or high maintenance. Holy...1 -
giannigreco83 wrote: »sorbus33rowan wrote: »Why don't you just stop eating eggs? They are full of saturated fat, cholesterol, and carcinogens- surley it will be good that you wont miss them?
What????
Obvious troll is obvious. Just ignore them.1
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