Complementary feeding: the egg

After touching the fruit, legumes, vegetables, meat and fish today comes one of the best known in the kitchen: the egg.

The egg is rich in proteins of high nutritional value (that they tell the bodybuilders, which inflate to clear) and lipids rich in phospholipids with a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids (help lower bad cholesterol).

When do you start offering?

It is one of the foods with more allergenic potential and therefore It is recommended to start offering it after 12 months.

How to prepare it?

The egg should always be consumed cooked due to the risk of salmonella transmission and to facilitate the digestibility of the albumin of the white, that is, it is not recommended raw or partially raw (as it could be if it is not fried too much, passed by water less time of the precise, in homemade mayonnaise, ...).

It is said that it takes eight minutes for the egg to be well cooked (eight minutes after the water starts to boil, although we leave it in my house for ten ...).

Between the white and the yolk, the most allergenic is the clearThat is why it is recommended to offer the yolk first, the yellow part (yes, I know it is obvious, but sometimes they ask me), and a few days later offer the whole egg.

The yolk can be mixed with some puree, chop it with the meat, mix it with a soup of letters, etc.

There is some controversy between the need to separate the yolk from the white, since it has been proven that part of the white ends up leaving with the yolk in the separation.

However, in many cases of symptoms after taking the egg white the children had tolerated the yolk correctly, so as to separate yolk and clear nothing will happen, we recommend doing it, just in case.

The triple viral vaccine

In the twelve-month review, the triple viral vaccine is normally administered, which contains traces of egg protein. The amounts are very low and it is very unusual for a child allergic to eggs to have problems with this vaccine.

However, special actions are recommended in case a child is allergic, such as staying 30 minutes in the health center in case a reaction occurs after the vaccine or administered in a hospital if the child has suffered reactions severe cardiorespiratory after eating egg.

With this information I want to say that, personally, I recommend offering eggs a little earlier (one or two weeks) from the day the triple viral vaccine will be administered, basically, to rule out that the child is allergic to the egg.

How will I know if I have to wait with my child 30 minutes after the vaccine if I still don't know if he is allergic?

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