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This exact thing happened to me too, except I threw up if the nausea was too bad. Got an allergy test and it was positive, even though I ate them all my life.
Question for you: Prior to developing the allergy did you get a flu shot annually? I kept thinking back to the questionnaire you have to fill out and it asks if you have an egg allergy, and I've wondered since then if getting the flu shot caused me to become allergic. I've tried researching the subject, but no one has drawn this conclusion, or at least looked into it.
Influenza viruses grow well in eggs (live chicken embryos), so they have been used for many decades to grow some strains of influenza in research labs. The virus is grown in the eggs, then harvested and inactivated for use in the vaccine. Therefore it is possible for the vaccine to have trace amounts of egg proteins in it which could cause anaphylactic shock if injected into someone who is allergic to eggs.
Thank you for the info. What I'm specifically wondering is if getting the vaccine with the egg protein every year would somehow mutate in your system and cause someone to become allergic to eggs over time. I didn't get the flu shot the following year after I was diagnosed, but I remember the year after the flu vax no longer used egg proteins for the delivery system. I wondered why the change and if there was any relation. Egg allergies are usually more common in children and many outgrow it. It's rare to develop an egg allergy later in life.
Question: were you getting regular flu shots before you developed the alergy?
The reason I ask is because I saw a clip from RFK Jr saying that if vaccines contain an adjuvant to provoke an immune response, you can end up developing an allergy to whatever is in your bloodstream at the same time.
I didn't figure it out immediately because I had come down with a stomach virus just before the reactions started. The first time I had the reaction I thought it was the stomach bug returning, but then it continued. I'm sure I consumed a regular amount of products with egg as an ingredient, but I only ate eggs on their own twice a week, in a salad during the week, and for breakfast on the weekends. That was how I figured out it was eggs causing the issue, because I would get sick after those two meals. Doc didn't initially think it was an allergy, but maybe food intolerance since i was having stomach issues and not a classic allergic reaction. Was referred to a GI doc who couldn't find any underlying cause after both an endoscopy and colonoscopy. Doc then referred me to the allergist and it turned out I was allergic to both the egg white and the yolk. I will still eat products that have egg, and the only way to tell the allergy is still present is if I overeat. One scoop of ice cream is cool, beyond that not so much. Grateful it's not too serious, but have wondered if the flu shots were to blame, especially now with all the clot shot issues.
I'm sorry, but I have no answers to your questions about developing allergies from the vaccines. I can say that some influenza viruses grow very well in chicken embryos, and some don't. So which influenza strains are chosen for the vaccine in any particular year (whether any were grown in eggs or not) will determine whether they ask about egg allergies or not.
Don’t consider that a factor- my post always missing the most important word. 🤷♀️
I can’t tell if my reply actually went to you - but I had the flu vaccine at 21 yo and got sick/flu after so never took another one after that.
I had gotten the flu shot but once 30 years ago- so I consider that a factor- honestly it was out of the blue & I am stumped to this day 🤷♀️
Glad your symptoms are improving. I only seem to get sick when I eat whole egg. If I eat a food with egg as an ingredient (cake, ice cream, pasta) I do not get sick, unless I eat too much. In that regard, limiting those foods have improved my health, but I do miss eggs Benedict and a good over easy egg.
Had a doctor tell me once that people can grow into allergies and grow out of them. Makes no sense. When I was younger I used to love the smell of grass, loved mowing yards, etc. Then one day after mowing, as night came along I was getting stuffy, and by bed time I could hardly breathe. Was taking a hot shower at like 1am, just so I could breathe better.I didn’t know what it was, never experienced anything like that. And for 10-12 years after that I became sick twice a year around allergy seasons. Always an infection due to allergies. Then..after learning some home remedies (spoonful of local honey a day for months at a time) my allergies started to back off again. Nowadays I start to sneeze a little what I mow a certain wild flower in the spring, but that’s it. They are about gone. It’s weird.
So I don’t know, maybe that doctor was right. Maybe it’s something else. But allergies suck. Of any kind.
There are a lot of reasons for new allergies, and similar reasons for why you might move past them.
Developing a new allergy you did not have prior could be due to some not so fun things, and can also be due to a change in gut flora.
If that change is reverted or changes again, you might not have that allergy anymore.
There is a lot of sense in why our bodies may grow allergic and also get past an allergy. This is considered a widely understood fact too, so if your doctor told you this within the past 10-20 years I'd probably make sure not to see them anymore.