Duck Eggs Making Me Sick?

[TSOWOATNKC]

I collect a few days worth, then clean them. I have a fresh/unwashed basket/clean carton system in place. I wash about a dozen at a time, then put them in the carton for use.

 

[bluemerle]

I developed an intolerance to chicken eggs (after years of eating them with no issue) and I have similar symptoms when I eat them. Horrible stomach pains, diarrhea, etc. about thirty minutes to an hour after eating them. They hit me harder than dairy!

 

[TSOWOATNKC]

We thought my fifth child had an issue with chicken/egg but he was actually celiac. All the symptoms of celiac disease overlap with the description of symptoms too.

Almost universally people allergic to egg are also allergic to chicken; same protein. It is also a contraindication to many vaccinations. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, paid the hospital bills.

 

[TSOWOATNKC]

One other thing that can cause that reaction is gallstones or “dumping syndrome” post gallbladder removal. Any fatty food will just go straight thru you. The combination of fat+sugar or fat+high carbohydrates just goes straight thru.

So I would highly recommend that no one self diagnose any type of allergy or intolerance. Correlation absolutely does not always indicate causation.

 

[cymbaline]

We (my boyfriend and I) ate them scrambled and in baked goods when we first started getting them. No issues whatsoever. Last week, my boyfriend scrambled a few up for breakfast and then was very sick shortly after eating them, about an hour or two later. He was vomiting and had diarrhea for probably six hours, and had really bad stomach pains. I have since then eaten more duck eggs, scrambeled and in banana bread with no issues. However, about three hours ago, we had scrambled duck eggs again. I made sure to cook them extra well done. We have both already been sick from them I'm guessing. I have diarrhea and my boyfriend has vomiting plus diarrhea.
So now here's my question I guess, are we allergic to the eggs or something? Here's a little more background info. My boyfriend is rarely sick to his stomach. Hardly never. I have IBS on the other hand, and am sick usually a few times per week. I have also had salmonella before when I was a kid and the level of sick I am now is a walk in the park compared to that. Is there some other disease or virus that our eggs and birds could have maybe? Our ducks are housed in a clean environment, but I do wash the eggs with warm water when collecting because they tend to be very muddy and poopy, because ducks are just messy. I also refrigerate them immediately after washing. Our ducks also all seem to be very healthy.

OMG, that is basically exactly what happened to me! I ate all kinds of eggs for the first couple months and all was well. Then one weekend I made an omelet and within a half hour or so, spent the next 6 hours vomiting. Kind of blamed in the bacon, it had been open in the fridge for a while. Was fine all week, then made french toast the next weekend - but with chicken eggs, just to be safe - and again, almost immediately spent the next 6 hours or so hurling. Felt perfectly fine that evening, ate nachos and cheese dip for dinner, lol. Fine again for days, then made brownies the next weekend and just LICKED THE BOWL and once again, within 20 minutes I lost my guts for the next 6 hours. What was really crazy was that I ate some of the brownies afterward and nothing bad happened. I finally pieced it all together, that (potentially undercooked?) eggs were involved every time, and quit eating any eggs for months, This was in 2013...spring of 2014 I ate some hard-boiled chicken eggs and was fine. Began eating them regularly, and have since used duck eggs in numerous baked goods and suffered no ill effects, but I haven't been brave enough to just eat them scrambled or anything like that.
Best answer I could come up with was some kind of sensitivity to a protein or something, maybe something that baking at a certain temperature negated/modified? I even got nauseated after eating chicken once during that time, didn't vomit though.
Crazy that your bf was affected the same amount of time as me - about 6 hours. Everything I read about food poisoning said it wasn't that immediate and lasted longer.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

Food poison and illness takes 14-16 hours to on set. I'm a chef by trade. Now here's where it gets weird and tricky your body and brain are programed to avoid food it thinks is making you sick. So if for example you had a bad meal the night before and had eggs for breakfast, your brain will associate the eggs with making you sick and will cause you In the future to react to the offender by expelling it quickly so as not to become Ill again. You can really see this in effect with liquor. If you ever been deathly sick from drinking most people can't even stand the smell of what ever liquor they where drinking when it happened.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

Also this can be triggered by watching others become ill, I.E the yawning effect. Subject A becomes sick. Subject B. Watches subject A. Becoming ill and associates that with X. X being what ever subject A was doing at the time. I wrote a nice paper on this year's ago for school. It's crazy the programming we have in our dna to keep us from eating and drinking things that will make us unwell.

 

[CayugaJana]

I’ve heard of people being allergic or sensitive to duck eggs. And once they switched their feed to a 100% organic kind from TSC. And haven’t had problems since then. I personally don’t buy organic but if I was spewing from both ends for hours after eating them, it might be work a try.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

As to baking verse scrambled eggs. When baking you could be reaching higher internal temps that is killing the offening bacteria. Just scrambling them you may not be reaching a temp that kills off the bacteria in question causing you issues. different types of bactria are effected by different temps.

O and here's the medical description of food aversion

"Food aversion is the alteration of eating behavior for psychological reasons. It may manifest as psychological food intolerance, where there is an adverse physical reaction associated with the ingestion of a particular food, or food avoidance."

Almost every case of food aversion can be attributed to our survival instincts which are hard wired into our subconscious to ensure self preservation.

 

[chickens really]

Possibly salmonella?..You can get your Birds tested for that..