Catturd: FYI … out of nowhere,
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🙏🙏🙏 for a speedy recovery- one time I all the sudden became allergic to eggs - out of the blue. It severe cramping diarrhea to the point I couldn’t drive if I had eaten an egg and had to curl up in ball for 3 hours- it took about a month to put it together that it was eggs - don’t know why but I slowly added eggs back in to my diet (6months from figuring out it was eggs) and now can eat them again. It was crazy.
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.
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.
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.