My Egg Dishes Become Toilet Souffles

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Gross topic, I know, but this has happened twice recently and I don't know why. I made a delicious egg sandwich and then five minutes after eating it, I instantaneously vomited. Do I have a food intolerance or something? Am I not cooking the eggs enough? It is totally weird because both times the eggs haven't tasted bad or off, and then I have thirty seconds to go vom them up somewhere. I know the best solution is "Stop eating eggs.", but they are cheap, high in protein, and didn't used to make me feel this way, so I'm hoping there is a middle-ground solution. Thanks!

Ashaman42

Are you being sick for a while or just a single vom and then feel fine afterwards?

matt has a problem

Were the two sandwiches made from the same batch of eggs? If so, you could try buying new eggs. Try eating just the whites, or just the yolks. It doesn't sound like an actual allergy, since you would be swelling up if that were the case, but it could be egg white intolerance, which causes intestinal troubles. Trial-and-error will probably result in more puking though.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Ashaman42 wrote:

Are you being sick for a while or just a single vom and then feel fine afterwards?

Fine right after. It is so weird. I have to rule out pathogens because they don't present symptoms until 4-8 hours after ingesting. It is literally immediately after I eat them.

WildEEP

Sounds like a bad batch of eggs - you do realize they use eggs for Viral cultures right? So stop for a moment and think about what can grow inside an egg . . .
Might wanna toss those.

If it happens with ALL eggs - consider switching to Egg Beaters.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

These are separate occasions. It happened once last year and I didn't make eggs again until now, and it happened again!

Cabezone

It actually sounds like you have an egg intolerance. I have the same thing, immediately after eating eggs I get stomach pain. I believe it has to do with not being able to digest the egg protein.

EDIT: it can also develop and get worse as you age.

Cabezone

Egg beaters may not help, I tried it and the results were worse. You can be intolerant to either the yolk, white, or both. Egg beaters are mostly whites.

Essee

This has happened to me quite a few times, though I still eat eggs pretty often. But there have been a lot of cases where I had an upset stomach (often during a long car ride home, since people tend to set out early for those... bleh!) or otherwise felt pretty unpleasant after eating eggs. It didn't really seem to happen too consistently for me, but now that I think about it, it's been happening more often in recent times. I think my mom has mentioned that she seems to be mildly intolerant of eggs herself, so that's probably what's causing this for me. Anyway, something that I've noticed that mitigates the effect a bit for me is eating the eggs before the rest of my food, for some reason. If I eat some eggs along with other food (at a restaurant, for example) it seems like my stomach gets more upset than when I bury all the eggs with the other food.

Caveat: This may or may not help you at all, considering you throw up pretty much IMMEDIATELY after having the eggs, whereas I just start feeling bad part of the way through my meal or afterward. That's pretty bad... I would simply say to take the advice of the other posters in that case, but I bet you Egg Beaters are more expensive than the regular eggs you're buying, so you might just have to work it out so you cut out whichever part of the egg is getting you, if that fixes it for you. I can't offer advice on that because I'm really quite a bad cook, though.

Chanus

I don't get immediately sick, but whenever I eat eggs I'm nauseated the rest of the day. It took me a while to figure out the connection, and it didn't used to be this way... it's been over the last couple years that it's started being the case.

So, yeah, could be an intolerance.

Cabezone

It sucks, I used to eat eggs all the time. It used to be one of my favorite foods, but after the egg beaters experiment I'm never eating them again.

Skoal Cat

Protein powder is cheaper and has more protein per $ spent. Just make sure you don't get the powder made of egg protein...

tardcore

Alternatively, nuts are a good source of protein.