Egg: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food

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Episode Description

What if your baby is allergic to eggs? The only way to know if your baby has an egg allergy is to offer them egg. In this episode I’ll share some easy ways to make eggs safe for babies so your baby can start learning how to safely eat eggs.

Other Episode Related to this Topic

• Episode 49 - Eggs: 7 Easy Ways to Safely Offer Your Baby Eggs
• Episode 124 - Using an Egg Ladder for Babies with Egg Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD
• Episode 397 - Hard Facts on Soft Yolks: Are Runny Egg Yolks OK for Babies?

Links from Episode

• Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program 

• Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Resources & Research

• Koplin, Jennifer J et al. “Can early introduction of egg prevent egg allergy in infants? A population-based study.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 126,4 (2010): 807-13. 
• Lemon-Mulé, Heather et al. “Immunologic changes in children with egg allergy ingesting extensively heated egg.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 122,5 (2008): 977-983.e1.
• Leonard, Stephanie A et al. “Dietary baked egg accelerates resolution of egg allergy in children.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 130,2 (2012): 473-80.e1. 
• Perkin, Michael R et al. “Randomized Trial of Introduction of Allergenic Foods in Breast-Fed Infants.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 374,18 (2016): 1733-43.