DUCK eggs are generally safe for anyone who doesnt have a severe (anaphylactic) reaction to eggs. They're harder to find, but if you already get your eggs from a farm, rather than a supermarket it shouldn't be much harder. I developed an egg allergy as a result of overconsumption a few years ago. I don't believe you can "create" an allergy, but rather make a sensitivity worse by eating copious amounts of one food. I had the same issue with peanuts and avocados. Anything more than a small serving every once in a while and I get respiratory symptoms. Small amounts are fine (eggs in paleo pancakes etc) but I still can't eat the chicken eggs on their own.

I use to eat a lot of eggs when I first started a paleo type diet, and I blamed my fatigue and mood swings on the diet itself, but closely after removing eggs from my diet, as an experiment, my fatigue and mood swings disappeared.

Before I went gluten free (also pre-paleo and pre-tummy troubles from antibiotic use) I could eat eggs all I wanted to. After going gluten free I found out pretty fast that some pretty severe symptoms I was experiencing were from eggs. Now after quite a bit of time as full paleo, I tried reintroducing (farmers market eggs) and even just a couple of eggs is enough to renew the exact symptoms I had before. Sad!!

Update: Found out that it matters, with more effort than I was already putting in (buying only freerange etc), that what the chicken are eating matters big time. Now I can eat 2 dozen eggs a week with no issues at all because I buy eggs from free range chickens that are not supplement with soy feed. I already knew I was super allergic to soy, but I didn't think that would effect the contents of eggs, but it really does.

I agree with Ashley. Constant eating of anything can lead to an allergy or sensitivity at any age. I understand it is usually the white that one is allergic to. I switched to duck eggs and am fine with them. Look on line if you are not near a farmer....more expensive because of the shipping, but the duck eggs are twice as large or more, than chicken eggs.

Exact same experience! I Just stopped eating them.

I have a curious history with eggs, myself. From childhood I had a sensitivity to them and my mother didn't use them much in cooking except as incidental on the rare occasions she baked anything. My symptoms after eating a hard boiled egg here and there were mild to moderate nausea for a day or two, with headaches.

I outgrew the sensitivity eventually and by my mid-twenties I could eat them on a semi-regular basis without a problem, though one time on a hiking trip I wolfed five or six eggs at a sitting and got a milder version of the childhood tummy ache.

Then around age 30 I got my one (and only) flu shot and was sick as the proverbial dog for about four months. I had an immediate reaction to the shot and was kept for observation and to make sure I got fluids, etc. I also couldn't go near an egg again after this incident without the old and familiar nausea, cramping and general unease. (I'm told that the flu shot is, or was, cultured in a base of egg white, and now they ask on the pre-shot questionnaire whether or not you are currently or ever have been sensitive to eggs.)

That took about five years to ease off and I've been eating eggs regularly ever since with no problems.

I used to eat egg whites and they would give me horrible smelling farts (but nothing noticable beyond that).

Then I occasionally would buy eggs and eat 4 or 6 at a time but never really ate them regularly. Then one night I had 6 and the following morning I had 6 and it flushed my system out, never had anything like that before. Then I didn't have them for a while. More recently I started having 4 for breakfast every day and (I've ruled most everything else out as main suspects) caused constipation. Almost seems like I created a problem with them when I had that dozen within ~14 hours.

I love eggs and I eat them like almost everyday. A few years ago, I developed skin rashes because of eggs so what I did was limit my daily intake to weekly and sometimes none in a week. rashes gone and I basically forgot that i was allergic to eggs. just recently I got addicted again on eating eggs and voila! hello to skin rashes again. :(

None in my family thankfully - parents, brother, husband, me. We eat about 6-12 eggs/week. Usually they are whole - both white and yolk.

This doesn't pertain to the part of your question about developing allergies late in life, but I noticed how your problem started after increasing your use of eggs. I have a six year old who tested negative for a scratch test to eggs, but we still think she has some sort of egg intolerance because every time she goes on an egg bender (eggs every day for a week or so), she has an outbreak of eczema. She can eat food with eggs in it, or an off-day of egg eating, and be fine. It's the stretch of eating eggs daily that does it to her. Perhaps your issue is similar. What if you cut the eggs entirely a couple of weeks and then reintroduced them? It would help your body heal and serve as a food challenge test. Then, if you're OK with them, use them moderately.

i found myself one day just not wanting eggs anymore -- they seems like the most unappealing food EVER (despite the fact that i'd loved eating them daily for over a year). my body just didn't them, so i changed breakfasts, and about 4 months later, i was in the mood for them again. i've been eating them almost every day since (about a year).

Totally.. I'm in the same boat as you. I got on the paleo train an was really seeing benefits with the diet; I also ate eggs every morning, and after about 6 months of being paleo I became intolerant to them; I would get stomach cramping, nausea, and diahhrea every time I tried to eat them. What's really weird is that I ate the same amount of eggs before becoming paleo for about 4 years, it was just after becoming paleo that I stopped eating oatmeal in the morning with my eggs and starting eating blackberries instead.. and the intolerance only developed after I made the switch to paleo. After that blow, I got off the paleo train because I felt so lost without being able to eat eggs for breakfast. Lol now I'm on oat bran and nut butter for breakfast.

I had an anaphylactic reaction to undercooked egg white when a was younger. I thought that eating well cooked whites were fine until I discovered that my small patch of eczema cleared up when I stopped eating so many. If I stop eating eggs altogether, will I then have a severe reaction if I eat some?

Currently I have one well done fried egg at the weekend.

I too ate eggs my whole life, stopped when I fell pregnant as even the sight of them made me feel sick, after giving birth to my Son I found out I developed an allergy to eggs (aged 25). This allergy lasted apox 8 months then one day I accidentally ate a product containing eggs and was fine, so the next day I made an omelette and again was fine, it just seemed like the allergy had vanished. The doc thinks its probably because my Son has an egg allergy (he's only 9 months old so too young to try it to see) and he briely passed it on to me while I was pregnant with him. Obviously not the same as your story but just an example that allergies can vanish as quick as they came about.

Nicola :)