Sam’s first Christmas Morning went well…… until he received an unwanted 1st Christmas gift just after breakfast.

The Unwanted 1st Christmas Gift

He had some fried Egg for breakfast & had an allergic reaction to it.
(He has had scrambled egg on several occasions before, and had no issues then. This was the first time he’d had fried egg).

Egg allergies are fairly common in babies.

I have a lot of allergies & intolerances, so I recognised the rash straight away.
He was fine in himself so we decided to wait it out rather than rushing off to A&E on Christmas Morning.
Within 3 hours, the rash had totally cleared up.

Lesson learnt: No more Egg for Sam for a while & no more first foods on Christmas Day!! What do you make of Sam’s unwanted 1st Christmas gift? He was super unlucky!

Hopefully he won’t need full on allergy tests, moving forward…

Here’s some info on egg allergies…

The information in this factsheet has been written to help people understand more about egg allergy.

Eggs are one of the most common foods to trigger allergic symptoms in babies and young children. Most children with an egg allergy will start to outgrow it by the time they go to school but in some it will persist into later childhood or in rare cases, adulthood. Egg allergy can occasionally develop in adult life.

Reactions to egg are usually triggered by the protein part of the egg (mainly in the egg white). Babies who have eczema are at an increased likelihood of developing an egg allergy. Having another type of food allergy for example to cow’s milk or a family history of allergy (atopy) also increases the risk.

Finally let me know if your child ever got an unwanted 1st Christmas gift.