Allergy to Duck Eggs?

[Isabella Mcadams]

Hi there,
So I'm raising 5 ducks for eggs at the moment, 3 Welsh Harlequin/Pekin and 2 Pekins. The Welsh/pekins started laying at the beginning of April. Let's just say I ate a merengue with 6 duck eggs and was sick as a dog all night. Now, I've had duck eggs before, once or twice, fried, but never with this reaction.

I thought maybe it was just the richness of the 6 egg whites in the merengue and the 6 yolks in the lemon curd on top, so I shrugged it off and a week later I had 1 fried duck egg for breakfast. Only one. Almost as soon as I finished breakfast, I was already feeling quite ill. Spent the whole day laying in bed, getting up every 2 minutes to puke (TMI, sorry). I noticed that on both these occasions, when I put the egg in my mouth, I would have some weird tingly feeling.

I assume this is some sort of allergy, so I'm not going to be eating these eggs again. EVER. Actually I think all eggs are ruined for me now.

Thank you for all your help! And these are my ducks:

 

[duckeggallergy]

Hi there,
So I'm raising 5 ducks for eggs at the moment, 3 Welsh Harlequin/Pekin and 2 Pekins. The Welsh/pekins started laying at the beginning of April. Let's just say I ate a merengue with 6 duck eggs and was sick as a dog all night. Now, I've had duck eggs before, once or twice, fried, but never with this reaction.

I thought maybe it was just the richness of the 6 egg whites in the merengue and the 6 yolks in the lemon curd on top, so I shrugged it off and a week later I had 1 fried duck egg for breakfast. Only one. Almost as soon as I finished breakfast, I was already feeling quite ill. Spent the whole day laying in bed, getting up every 2 minutes to puke (TMI, sorry). I noticed that on both these occasions, when I put the egg in my mouth, I would have some weird tingly feeling.

I assume this is some sort of allergy, so I'm not going to be eating these eggs again. EVER. Actually I think all eggs are ruined for me now.

Thank you for all your help! And these are my ducks:
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Hi, I found your post after Googling "duck egg allergy". (I eat chicken eggs all the time with no problems.) Two years ago I got a few duck eggs and tried them. I got the most intense painful stomachaches of my life. (Only labor has been worse). I was invited to a friend's house and I was on the floor in pain. I didn't suspect the duck eggs for days. I kept thinking maybe it's cheese or something. But one day I ate half a spoon of my son's scrambled eggs and realized it must be the duck eggs! I stopped immediately and the stomachaches went away completely.

 

[Crazy Maizie]

I developed an intolerance to duck eggs. I got sick enough that I couldn't eat chicken eggs either. I cut out all eggs for 6 months before attempting a chicken egg. I used to eat my eggs over easy, but since the duck egg incident, I only eat them fully cooked now. At Christmas, I baked a cookie bar using duck eggs instead of chicken eggs with no adverse reactions. But, I won't eat them right out. Since I tried my own experiment, for me I wonder if it has to do with the way the duck eggs were cooked and that by fully cooking them, I didn't have any issues? Or if it was just that I had only eaten a tiny fraction in the cookie bar? Either way I won't be eating duck eggs for breakfast ever again or tempt fate by eating too many baked goods containing duck eggs.

 

[Ducksmom]

I did not eat duck eggs for 2 years now as I developed an intolerance to them. However, I was reading an old post in which the person tested multiple way to cook them and noticed that she was able to eat the yolk. Additionally, if making scrambled eggs, they have to be overcooked to avoid reactions. I will try again as soon as my hens start laying as I sold all my ducks and started over with Hookbill ducks.

 

[neo71665]

https://www.jacionline.org/article/...umption,frequently causes allergy in children.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Oh yikes! I'm so sorry. That sounds horrible. What do you feed them, including treats?

@EggSighted4Life is amazingly knowledgeable with nutrition stuff. Let's see what she has to say

 

[Isabella Mcadams]

Sorry you have a severe egg allergy. I hope it wasn't salmonella or e.coli?

Fairly certain it wasn’t, as the rest of the family was unaffected.

 

[DukesDucks]

I don't eat my duck eggs either. Not because of any reaction, I just find the flavour too intense. So now what are you going to do with your eggs. Lots of people, including myself, sell them. I like to think my ducks are at least contributing to their feed bill.

 

[DucksOhio]

I haven’t been able to eat ANY eggs for years. Intolerance, not allergy. I sure miss eating them. I haven’t even tried to eat them for years.

I suspect a bad reaction from the flu shot had something to do with it. That’s when I immediately reacted to eggs.

 

[Tonyroo]

Sorry you have a severe egg allergy. I hope it wasn't salmonella or e.coli?