DD had a baked egg challenge in January and was given a dose of 1/16 of an egg. For the first 5 to 6 weeks, everything went well and she ate the cupcakes I baked and seemed to tolerate it well. She got sick in March, so I held off on giving her the egg dose because I worried how the illness might affect her immune response; the illness was one of those viruses that just seemed to linger for a few weeks.
After the illness, DD has not been cooperative about eating items with egg. In addition, I've been working horrendous hours and am not usually home in the evenings (to either bake or give DD her dose) and DH was not good about giving DD her dose. We saw Dr. Wood in late July and he said that he's had patients who have had success eating commercially prepared items where egg is the 3rd or lower ingredient on the list. He did note that we would not know the exact dose she was getting but the goal was to get her tolerating egg in baked goods.
She's complained her stomach hurt when she's eaten baked goods. She's had no other symptoms: no hives, no breathing issues, no swelling. Though, it's been hard to tease out whether the stomach issue could be anxiety.
Well, we still had trouble getting DD to comply with the treatment. I finally got her to agree to an incremental approach: one bite one day, two bites two days later, etc. (dosing every other day). We also got her to eat the School Safe Banana Chocolate cakes as her dosing vehicle. Last night she ate six bites of the cake, which was about half of it. It was about 8:30 to 8:45. Right away, she lay down on the couch looking a bit tired (though that could have been explained by staying up late the night before and then getting up early for swim lessons). She went upstairs to take her shower, and DH heard her crying. He asked her what was wrong, and she said she had really bad diarrhea and her stomach hurt a lot. TMI alert: DD said the diarrhea was very liquidy.
She went up to her shower about 10 to 15 minutes after she at the eggy item. She had the same side dishes and veggies DH and I had but she had a hot dog vs. hamburger for the entree; the date on the hot dog package was still good. DH ran out for some liquid immodium. We gave DD one dose, and she's been fine since then. She did say her tummy was a little crampy this morning but she's eaten a bagel with cream cheese, a piece of toast with laughing cow on it, and Fruit Loops with skim milk and banana (and just came up asking for lunch).
I'm thinking her GI symptoms last night were a reaction to the egg. I'm thinking that this also puts a damper on being able to get the flu vaccine.