Talk:Egg allergy

I believe the article should be more specific regarding the Epinephrine autoinjector used to treat severe allergies. For example, it should say that when administered to an infant, the Epinephrine pen should be injected into the infant’s thigh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baires78 (talk • contribs) 03:04, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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Some artificial flavors contain eggs, but I'm uncertain as to which ones. A list of additives that contain egg proteins would be a life-saver!
 * If that's the case, then you'll probably find the information at the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network's website or at your doctor's office. Wikipedia is not an appropriate source for lifesaving medical information.  You should not trust the information here with your life, because a typo (or someone's sick idea of a joke) could kill you.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In the United States, the official definition of "artificial flavors" and "natural flavors" is here:

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ac3815539ab52cd7c49d738eb6c6e7c8&rgn=div8&view=text&node=21:2.0.1.1.2.2.1.1&idno=21 That might be a good ref to add to the article and mention that anything that uses those "catch all" terms may not be safe. But maybe this should go in the main food allergy article, not under egg.
 * To further complicate the picture, companies don't always comply correctly with labeling law and there isn't always much oversight. Anyway, I think a list of words that you might not know mean egg would be a good addition to the article. Asbruckman (talk) 03:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Egg allergy does affect adults - I am a case in point, I am a 40 year old women who has been diagnosed as having a moderate allergy to eggs namely the protein in the egg white called Lysozyme. At best my face goes bright red at worst my throat swells and I can go into Anaphalactic shock. I have an EPI pen on standby. Please can you mention this in your article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.122.120 (talk) 23:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Article now clear that egg allergy can persist into adult years. David notMD (talk) 10:50, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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Factual error in Vaccine hazard
The quantity of egg protein in a dose of MMR vaccine is approximately 40 picograms (much lower than in influenza vaccine, which contains approximately 0.02-1.0 micrograms).

40 picogram = 4.0*10^-5 microgram or 0.00004 microgram. This implies MMR has lower egg protein and does not match with the comparison above. One of the units could be wrong but I don't have the expertise to pinpoint which. ImpossibleBalloon (talk) 14:15, 13 September 2015 (UTC)


 * MMR portion of vaccine hazard revised. The Piquer-Gibert reference states that the amount of egg protein in the MMR vaccine ranges from non-detectable to 0.5 to 1.0 nanograms of ovoalbumin (per 0.5 mg dose of vaccine). It cites three refs to support this information. David notMD (talk) 22:31, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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Starting major rewrite
Starting major rewrite and re-referencing of the entire article. David notMD (talk) 12:49, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Nominating for Good Article David notMD (talk) 00:22, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Completed all the major changes I intended. David notMD (talk) 14:45, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Article as model for other food allergy articles
This article being used as model for improving food allergy articles to other common allergens (milk, peanut, tree nut, wheat, soy fish, shellfish). As of November 2017 the last two articles do not exist, so instead a search on either of those redirects to the Food allergy article. David notMD (talk) 08:33, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * July 2020: I have created Draft:Fish allergy by copying all of Egg allergy into that draft. Content and refs specific to eggs is in process of being removed, and content and refs specific to fish added. David notMD (talk) 12:26, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Infobox not there yet.
I copied the Infobox from Milk allergy with intention to soon (!) replace the missing milk refs with egg refs, but instead a BOT brought the milf refs into this article. Will fix. David notMD (talk) 02:23, 10 September 2022 (UTC)