Egg Allergies - Do Kids Grow Out of Them?

My 3 year old outgrew hers and can eat scrammbled eggs now. Waiting on my 18month old to outgrow her among other allergies! Good luck

My son is 4 and his egg allergy is almost gone. Try not to give him things with undercooked eggs (French toast or cookies that are soft in the middle, for example)...the protein changes when cooked and makes it less allergenic.

Also, flu vaccines have egg in them. My son has to go to his allergist to get scratch tested for the flu vaccine before he can have it. (He has never had a reaction to the vaccine.) Might be something you want to check with your doc about.

Often allergies come and go. My daughter no longer spends the day coughing after eating eggs, which is nice because she loves them.

My allergy bloodwork says I have a significant allergy to eggs, but I have absolutely no symptoms from eating chicken eggs. However, I do get quite sick from the flu vaccine (which is grown in eggs). And I've developed an obvious allergy (vomiting within an hour) to duck eggs.

Allergies are weird things. Good luck!

my daughter used to break out around her mouth when she had eggs. We stopped giving it to her for a while (can't remember how long) and then tried again later and she was fine. Eggs are one of her favorite things to eat now and she is 6

Mine had a mild allergy as a baby. We never saw the symptoms but it came up on a skin test. Doc said it was ok to continue giving him baked goods with eggs baked into them but avoid plain eggs. By 2 years old he was eating them although doesn't seem to like them very much! Our pediatric allergist said the white is the most allergic part, btw.

My son had a severe egg allergy at 18 mos- bad enough to have to carry around an epipen. He is now 5 and the egg allergy is almost gone. He is no longer allergic to egg yolk, and very, very mildly allergic to the whites. My allergist said that most children do grow out it. My son is proof!

My son is highly allergic to egg whites but not the yolk (go figure). He's 8 and although some symptoms still stick around he does pretty good if I feed him eggs on a 4 day rotation. If I serve them multiple days in a row his body hates it:(

However, I have a cousin who has a son that is growing out of his egg allergy. She can now bake with eggs again as the slow to heat of an oven and the long slow baking process breaks eggs down. He can't handle a quick scrambled egg real well but like I said, the baked eggs seem to not bother him at all anymore and he's 4 almost 5.

One of my sons used to break out in a horrible head-to-toe rash instantly when eating even one bite of eggs. It was scary. After he turned 2, the allergy disappeared. However, please know that some vaccines are contra-indicated if you have an egg allergy. If you do vaccines, make sure that an egg allergy is not contra-indicated. You can read the package inserts.(some are made using chick embryos)

My daughter had a mild egg allergy that resulted in eczema rashes, and she also had other food allergies from the age of 9mo until about 6yo. They all resolved themselves by then. I eliminated ALL of the allergens from her diet, none were life threatening, and introduced them one at a time once she reached age 5yo. If she had a reaction, I didn't give it to her again, if she didn't, I allowed it on a limited basis. I was told she would grow out of most if not all of her allergies as long as she didn't develop asthma, and she never did.
Occasionally she will develop a new allergy, right now she can't have chocolate :( and after about 6 months off of it, I will give her a little every few weeks to see how she reacts to it. She's 9yo now, so we've been through this a few times.

Most outgrow it, but not all. Usually, if they are going to outgrow it, they will do so by age 6.