Sunny side up eggs - okay to eat?

[Mikylamarnina]

I understand it's unsafe to eat raw eggs. But how about sunny side up eggs? I've been eating these thrice a week since I got pregnant. Have you eaten sunny side up eggs while pregnant?

Confused about what not to eat. The list just goes on and on.

 

[KatOro]

From what Ive read, no. In fact they arent even supposed to be runny. Fried hard or scrambled.

 

[Mikylamarnina]

Oh gosh. I've eaten tons of them since I got pregnant. In fact, I just had one a few hours a go.

I'll have them scrambled from now on.

 

[tashalina]

last week I made cakes with the kids, we had a great time licking the bowl...that night I got my ooppsss!

 

[Kota]

where are you situated? lots of eggs come 'stamped' now to show the chickens were salmonella vaxed, if you know that, you're fine to have runny yolks, just make sure the white is completely cooked.

 

[Mikylamarnina]

I'm from the Philippines. We buy eggs from the supermarket. Will check if we have that here.

 

[Chanchita91]

Sigh...fried hard? Yuck. The things I do for you, bean.

 

[MindUtopia]

Yes, runny eggs are on the list of things you are told to avoid, but it all depends how flexible you are with these things. I don't personally like runny eggs (actually, I don't really like egg yolks in general, hard or soft), so that's never been an issue. But I've certainly tasted cake batter containing raw eggs during pregnancy just to make sure I made it right. I figure I've been eating raw batter my whole life and have never once had food poisoning, and I know my eggs are high quality and generally considered safe, so I'm not overly worried about it now. I wouldn't eat it daily, but if you really want it and you feel okay about it, there's probably no harm in having a runny egg occasionally. So don't beat yourself up over it.

 

[Jcliff]

That's like the one breakfast I still enjoy ugh

 

[tashalina]

I want dippy eggs now

 

[baby_maybe]

I've still eaten fried eggs with a runny yolk, hard is horrible in a fried egg!!

Like a pp said here we get lion stamped eggs which are from chickens which have been vaccinated, so I don't see a problem in having one every now and then. Also someone else mentioned about the cake batter, same here, all my life we've had the spoon or bowl to lick and never gotten poorly from it. Check your eggs and see if you have the same where you are

 

[vegasbaby]

You can also buy pasteurized eggs (thought they are a bit difficult to find), I think that would take care of the issue as well.

 

[lilbabywalker]

Do you think eggs from my friends' backyard chickens would be safe runny? They only have a handful of chickens in a great, open environment . . .

 

[R8ch]

Hi

The official advice is to cook them hard and not have them runny. Why? Well there is a risk of Salmonella poisoning. What does that mean? Well it won't directly harm baby (unlike Listeria which can) but it can make mums to be very ill which is not nice. (I've had campylobacter and c. difficile, both nasty infections so I know what its like!)

However, I always have runny eggs. Lion stamped eggs make it less likely to be infected with salmonella. I would think you would have to be very unlucky. I have plenty of more serious things to avoid, like alcohol etc so a runny egg now and again is the least of my worries.

It is up to the individual to make the call but I feel I am grown up enough to deal with the consequences

Rx

 

[JJWEBB]

I still eat slightly runny eggs here and there. Im not too worried. In my 30 years of existence, ive never gotten salmonella poisoning. I doubt I will now.

 

[alicecooper]

Honestly I've never avoided having dippy eggs when I've been pregnant....but then again I don't eat eggs THAT often, maybe once a fortnight or something. I always make sure they are Lion marked ones though and not just ones from a local farm (though usually I like farm ones, I just go for the lion ones during pregnancy as I think they've been checked a bit better).

I THINK the only risk is if you contract salmonella. Really though you could get salmonella at any time with eggs....and how often do people get salmonella from a dippy egg?

I'm pretty anal about other things though. For example I avoid aspartame like the plague, even though that's not one of the officially banned things. But with dippy eggs...I dunno....I guess it's the one thing I'm more flexible about.