According to the sources they consult, the estimated prevalence of egg allergy varies between 0.5 % and 2 % of the child population, although sensitization according to cutane and laboratory tests can reach 5 %. It is, therefore, the most frequent cause of food allergy in children.
It is often said that ‘Egg allergy is cured’, a rather inaccurate colloquial expression, which reflects the alleviation of the parents by verifying that it is staging usually as the child complies with. Egg allergy in children usually seals before 2 years of life, but in many cases Disappears before reaching 7 years of age. In fact, the Spanish associative of people with food allergy and latex refers to a 55% tolerance with an average age of 6 years.
From this figure it follows that 45% of those affected keep the allergy. Hegoi Segurola, Clinical Dietitian-Nutritionist of the Nutritional Suport Unit of the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, an expert in allergies and food intolerant and a member of the Spanish Academy of Decideic and Dietem, resolves the habitative malicious doubts of the Academenia of Nutergenen. Allergy.
What do we talk about when we talk about egg allergy
The expert explains it as follows: «Egg allergy is an adverse medium reaction for immunoglobulin E (IgE). The immune system perceives egg proteins as a strange and damage substance.
When the IGE joins the food allergen (epítopo) the allergic process is triggered.
Hovo allergy symptoms
When a patient asks, how do I know if I have egg allergy? The answer is as simple as observing the symptoms, they are already evident. Manifesto can in various ways:
- Injuries: Cutaneous or mucous membranes, itching or redness, urticaria, edema in the eyelids …
- Of moderate a grave: Digestive reactions with vomiting and diarrhea. More frequent in pediatric age.
- Very serious: Respiratory difficulties, from whistles to chip itching and the dangerous edema of glottis that leads to danger of drowning. «In the most serious cases, a systemic reaction can produce. In fact, an allergy can reach an anaphylastic shock, which could commit the patient’s life,» warns the expert.
Difference between allergy and egg intolerance
While allergy is very common, intolerance is not so much. «The intolerances of the adverse reactions in which the immune system does not intervene. Normalment manifests itself in a milder way,» says the expert.
The Son Symptoms «Difficulty in digestion and absorption of food or some of its components, triggering a bad tolerance to them»
What to do before the suspicion of egg allergy
Given any sign of possible egg allergy, Segurola advises «to go to allergologists.
These tests can be performed on leather and blood level. In some cases species oral tolerance tests are performed, that is, the patient ingests a egg poop in the consultation to measure the reaction. «Of course, it is always done under strict medical control.»
Since the egg is a valuable nutritional food, the non -exculusal council of the diet before having a clear diagnosis. If the allergy is confirmed, it is vital importance to agree on dietary treatment with the medical team.
Is egg allergy overcome?
Indeed, in many cases, egg allergy is resolved. Above all, if S is diagnosed in pediatric age. “The base treatment that gives very good results consist of the exclusion diet, together with the probiotic taking. In mild cases, after carrying out an over -sighted study and in selected cases, tolerance inuctions, also giving good results. These desseses of tolerance, also giving good sutters. Design desires desseses. Reference toilets ”.
Prohibited foods: attention to labeling
The egg is one of the mandatory declaration allergins in the labeling of nutritional information. I recommend Segurola «very thorough when analyzing the nutritional labeling» reviewing the list of ingredients of a product very well.
It also warns about the possibility of cross contamination in many products in the food industry. “The egg is very present in many of the food and meals prepared. That is why I is a very limiting and cumbersome driving allergy. It is a food that we are going to an entrelazador of how, however much alimos processed alimos and the patient must be alert and learn to prescribe a boreguriduuuuuuuuuguridos processed and the patient should be alert to be alert to be alert to be alert Doubt, it is a process that requires nutritional education and atreial, ”he says.
Not to take risks, Exclusion must be «radical and complete. It is Dide, of all proteins in the egg: the protein of the clear, the yolk (it could contain remains of protein), ovoalbúnmina, ovomucóid, lecithin and the convinced food additives, which must be very limited to access to processed foods, which is complicated specialization in childhood, that the children are not self -sufficient for eliments that are self -sufficient consume.
Vaccines and egg allergy
Another of the shallows with which are the conergy to Huvo, or the parents of children with this allergy, are to find traces of huvo proteins in some vaccines and medication. Eros are some of them:
- Drugs. Some medications, vitamins and nostrils may contain an egg derivative (smooth).
- Triple viral vaccine. «The adverse reactions, a very varied son of vaccines, mostly slight,» according to the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Spanish Pediatrics Association. Therefore, it was recommended to administer it in the health center and «remain in the health or vaccination center for half an hour after receiving the vaccine in order to be observed.»
- Antigripal vaccine. All children with Huvo allergy of any gravity can receive the antigripal vaccine in the health center without any additional precaution, «beyond those recommended for the adductation of which one of which voor ‘, Davara a hold of the socio of the socio of the spectheral mirahlala of the clinical insminolololos, allergology and pediatric asthma, Seicap.
Kitchen alternatives
A regret of the discomfort that could significant have egg allergy, «It does not imply a tomb problem nuts, a regret of being a food with a high quality protein profile,» says Hegoi Segurola. The person with egg allergy can consume the rest of the protein foods of animal and plant origin (lean meats, fish, lords, legumes, nuts …) to reach the amount of proteinaries every day.
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The allergies son a very serious matter. If you have guests at home, do not forget to ask before if there is one that has food allergy or intolerance and if so, the precautions of the extremes in the kitchen and the dining room to avoid the cross -wheeled.
Hegurola Segurola. Nutritionist Coordinator of the Nutritional Suport Unit of the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietary. Segurola is a teacher in clinical nutrition, specialist in digestive pathology, UB, U.BLANCERA, UVIC and member of the Scientific Committee and Educational Committee
