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Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« on: July 15, 2008, 02:50:36 PM »
Following on from a recent post by a newbie who has started to clear rapidly after realising they had an egg allergy. I thought it important to highlight this partiocular allergy. Why ? Because eggs are in so many things you dont realise from bread, ice cream, custard, fried foods. It could even be possible that think they have wheat allergy when they have developed an egg allergy in the bread, for example.

Original post from the gluten/dairy fre ethread by SGM:
I have been suffering from P for over four years.  I have had three major outbreaks that required phototherapy, I had tried all kinds of different diets and remadies with no success.  I had thought all along that it may be a food allergy and began to eliminate different foods from my diet, still the P was reappearing, particularly after alcahol and different toxic food/drinks.  I found this site almost three weeks ago and immediately went on the gluten milk free diet, still the symthoms kept reappearing.  I looked back at my diet and there was one common item on my diet "eggs"  I had eggs in my diet every day, I thought this couldent be., but Googled egg allergy and first up was a site that stated eggs as being one of the six top food allergies.  Immediately I stopped eating eggs, it is now six days since I stopped eating eggs and my P has gotten dramatically better, I use ointment I got from the Derm and in these locations the P has almost completely dissappeared, only stains remaining.  I thought my life was ruined when the P kept reappearing and now cant tell you how happy it makes me to see I have finally found the cause.  I have read in my research that people with egg allergies normally see their skin allergies flare up within hours of eating eggs I found this to be exactly true for me.  I believe now looking back at my symptoms being allergic to eggs caused leaky gut and when I began to consume alcahol and other toxic foods that caused P.  Although this site is to talk about gluten and milk allergies I wanted to take the time to write this message as it may help one other P sufferer, then it would be worth it.  I want to especially say thank you to UVB your first poasting helped me more than anything to find my allergy.  If anybody wants help finding informtion on egg allergies post and I will answer you back.
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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 02:58:33 PM »
My dad had an allergy to eggs as a side effect of one of the tablets he was on for his heart.  He would start to get a tingling sensation and be violently sick within minutes of eating anything with egg content.  It is amazing how many things that you wouldn't automatically think contained eggs do.

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 03:00:46 PM »
Absolutely, eggs are found in many foods, including grain products, baked goods, custard, ice cream, and frozen yogurt; and may also be used in the processing of foods such as root beer and coffees. Egg whites are often used to give baked products such as pretzels, breads, rolls, bagels, pies, and cakes a shiny finish and may not be included in the list of ingredients.

Interestingly people often talk about reacting to red wine, and it can contain traces of egg as they use it to supress the tanins.

Very useful article about egg allergy.
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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2008, 03:33:19 PM »
My dad has a very severe egg allergy so I grew up being very aware of not "egging" him else I would have been grounded for a year ;)

Other hidden foods include:
Malted drinks like ovaltine etc
Foods with a glaze like pork pies/pastries
Custards and ice cream
Gravy granules like bisto
Tartar sauce and some baking powders
Prepared meals that have a sauce using eggs as a binder
ready made burgers/sausage
Shop bought bread crumbs
Pretzels
Some wines and coffees
Cake icing
salad dressings such as ceasar
KFC

Some innoculations such as yellow fever and the flu jab contain eggs too.

Dont just look on the packet for the word egg, look for albumen, Globulin,lecithin,Vitelin,and ovaglubulin. Products for dieters containing Simplesse which is a fat substitute should be avoided too.

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 08:05:03 PM »
For every X that claims to work for P, there is always a counter-claim that X will do the opposite.......

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I saw the add in a magazine and was cuirous. They say that everything is base on using the "whole egg"??? I thought eggs were a no-no for psoriasis???"......

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 11:27:45 PM »

Whether  people would clear from removing eggs would solely depend on if they had a allergic reaction to them and how big the reactionis. For some its wheat, for others gluten or dairy. For others food doesnt seem to be the problem.

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2010, 06:08:05 AM »
The year 2008 seems the busiest year for me and as being busy, I neglected my diet and frequent egg dish was my food.  Almost 4-5 times a week I eat eggs, I think this is the reason why I am deeply allergic in different foods.

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2011, 08:20:21 PM »
Unfortunately eggs are not the cause of Psoriasis. Eggs are an important part of eliminating Psoriasis as they provide multiple of vitamins and especially Vitamin D which is the number one vitamin required to eliminate Psoriasis.

 I have psoriasis and listened to dermatologists for years and guess what...they were wrong. Unless your specifically allergic to eggs, they are mandatory for good health.

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2011, 07:01:52 PM »
Thanks stewart_h and Talis! I'm going to try cutting out eggs and I'll let you know how it goes!

Although I do believe that food allergies/sensitivities triggering a skin reaction comes at the very end of an episode/flare-up - after the cumulative effect of a load of different factors affecting your immune response - like lack of sleep (maybe from a month of 'getting away with drinking coffee everyday' but not realising that it's actually been diminishing your quality of sleep), over-exercising, and stressing and worrying about any number of things including work...

I really think that mindfulness meditation and self-regulation are the best ways to deal with the root cause of P. And getting enough quality rest and sleep! If you can master that whilst you're clear, I think it's a great help for if/when the symptoms return. If nothing else, it can help you to cope mentally with having P. As with all things it's about self-regulation and having the desire and discipline to carry out good habits every day. And self-regulation is something that I know I have lacked all my life and need to work on but never have. Could be why my body can't seem to regulate itself either?

And after I thought that I've just found this...

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Re: Egg allergy: the hidden allergy
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2011, 07:35:02 PM »
I've read egg allergies typically affect children and they usually fade away upon reaching adulthood.  I think it is uncommon for an adult to discover he/she is allergic to eggs.  But for those who consume eggs often and in quantity it might help to go egg free for a few weeks and see what happens.


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