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For about 1.5 years now Ihave figured out that egg whites give me stomach cramps, bad ones, the more egg white consumed, the longer the pain and nausea. I have always felt a bit icky after eating eggs, as long as I can remember. It usually involved an omelet so I just attributed it to grease as there was likely cheese and/or bacon involved. On day I had some hollandaise sauce on my hash browns. No pain. Another day I ate a egg casserole and pain. It took a while to figure out, but now I just avoid egg whites. If I make a breakfast casserole, I dilute the eggs with egg yolks until I know that I would only be eating about 1/2 of an egg white per serving. For unknown reasons, sometimes I can pop a deviled egg into my mouth before I remember that egg whites don’t like me and if I just eat 1/2 of the egg, I am fine.

I finally remembered to mention this to my doc and ask for a blood allergy test, as the overall allergy test I had the year before showed nothing. Results? I am not allergic to anything, anything. I just have Celiac. Strange. Cheeses of all sorts, milk and yogurt do not bother me at all, thankfully! Lots of people with Celiac also have lactose intolerance.

So, I have a friend with Celiac that has the opposite problem, egg yolks bother her. Anyone out there with similar issues?

Egg whites and egg yolks chemically do not do the same thing in cooking/baking. One adds fat (of course the one I can eat) and the other binds. So, just adding more egg yolks to equal one normal egg is not really following the recipe, although it works. It takes about 3 yolks by the way, to equal one egg with yolk and white.

Here is the other oddity. Egg whites do not seem to bother me if they are in some sort of baked good. Mostly just when I am eating pure egginess like scrambled eggs, frittata, egg bakes, etc.

I hope this goes away. It certainly is more severe since cutting the wheat out of my diet as prior to then, I would just feel icky. Food for thought….Since I have no egg pics, I will show you a pic of a future egg producer:

i’m out

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