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:

 

[Tonyroo]

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

 

[neo71665]

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

 

[Campo]

Sounds similar to my son’s reactions to egg. He’s allergic to all varieties (though it’s just the whites). Have you never had a reaction to cooked or baked eggs before? Scrambled or pancakes? Cookies/cakes etc?

 

[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.

 

[Isabella Mcadams]

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

I feed them M-G Layer pellets, and they are free range (with boundaries lol)

 

[Isabella Mcadams]

Sounds similar to my son’s reactions to egg. He’s allergic to all varieties (though it’s just the whites). Have you never had a reaction to cooked or baked eggs before? Scrambled or pancakes? Cookies/cakes etc?

Never before with chicken eggs, only with duck eggs, cooked any way.

 

[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.

 

[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.