Hi Deb,
I also have a severe duck egg allergy! It took me a long time to figure it out since it was the last thing I expected. It seems like the allergy got worse the more times I was exposed to them. First few times I ate them I don’t remember getting sick at all. But after the next couple time it nearly killed me… in one of the first two severe episodes, my husband came home to me unconscious on the floor and had to call me an ambulance. I was in the hospital for a week before my vitals were stable enough and the doctors let me go home. By that time we connected the dots and realized it was the duck eggs.
Years have gone by now and last week I placed an order at a farm that I get my dairy and meat from. And I added on some of their fresh GF blueberry muffins.
So the next day, I come home from work, ate a muffin, made and ate dinner… and not long after dinner I knew something was wrong… within 20 min I was violently ill, puking, diarrhea, dizzy, etc… my husband wanted me to go to the hospital but I just thought it was bad food poisoning and it would pass as soon as I got it out of my system. The puking didn’t stop and I started having trouble breathing so my husband rushed me to the hospital and within another 30 minutes I was having convulsions and had 104+ fever. Took them 2 hours to stop the shaking and start actually treating me. They kept me for 4 days on observation until my vitals were stable and I could keep food down.
I couldn’t figure out what could have done it since nothing I ate was unusual. But I said to my brother it was so similar to my duck egg allergy - but worse. So he decided to call the farm…
It just so happened that the farm ran out of their chicken eggs and a local vendor offered them duck eggs as a substitute for their baked goods. I think the odds of me ordering THAT batch of muffins has to be less than getting struck by lightning!
Honestly, I don’t know if I can ever order anything that has eggs listed on the ingredients. I read that as long as it says “egg” in the ingredients, it can be chicken, duck or goose. Even though I’m sure most are chicken, I can’t take the risk…
Anyway, been researching a lot about it and saw this blog and thought I’d share.
