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see our page on Testing<\/a>), but often testing is not necessary if there has been a very typical reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAvoidance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Egg gets used in lots of different foods so it can be difficult to avoid.\u00a0 It can be used in bread and biscuits, it can be brushed on top of pastry eg sausage rolls, it gets used in desserts and sweets eg Tunnock\u2019s Tea cakes, Cadbury\u2019s Cr\u00e8me Eggs.\u00a0 It can be used in pasta, custard and ice cream \u2013 but you can usually get these without any egg in them.\u00a0 See\u00a0 Some vaccines are made using egg, but for the routine vaccines including MMR and nasal\/injectable influenza (\u201cflu\u201d) vaccines, the vast majority of egg allergic children can get them in the usual way, with no need for additional precautions. National advice states that MMR should be given to everyone, unless you have had an anaphylactic reaction to MMR vaccine itself in the past, and that influenza vaccine can be given to an egg allergic child as long as they have not had \u201csevere anaphylaxis to egg\u201d in the past (there are some other contraindications to nasal influenza vaccine however, eg wheezing on the day of immunisation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have the immediate type of allergy to egg, then there is a risk of Most children with egg allergy will grow out of it, although it may take several years. Your health professional will recommend when to try reintroducing egg in a careful step by step way (sometimes called an \u201cegg ladder\u201d), a dietician can give further advice about this. In high risk cases, repeating allergy tests over a year or two can be useful to see if things seem to be getting better or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other allergies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Most children allergic to egg are not allergic to anything else, but the risk of being allergic to another food eg peanut is higher. This is not however a reason to avoid trying anything new. A common allergy in young children, which often goes away as they get older. Although you might have to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":122,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions\/6725"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}our patient information leaflet<\/a>.\u00a0 See also\u00a0Food Labelling<\/a>\u00a0for more information about labels.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRisk of anaphylaxis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
anaphylaxis<\/a>. Your doctor can prescribe an antihistamine and give you an allergy plan in case you have an unexpected reaction. Severe reactions in young infants are however very rare, mainly because once you know about the allergy, it is relatively straightforward to keep you child away from egg. Once a child can eat some cooked or baked egg in foods without a problem, the risk of anaphylaxis virtually disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrognosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
See Weaning and Antenatal page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"