Gas And Bloating. From Eggs

[mogwog]

I would wager a guess that most everyone heard of or (knows someone who) has had experience with the "eggs farts". I changed my diet recently to include more eggs (2 a day) and also increased my cheese, magnesium, vitamin e, thiamine and niacin supplementation at the same time.

When I started noticing the bloating, I gradually removed all the added cheese and supplements and found the culprit to be eggs. I am guessing this is due to their sulfur content. But not every one reacts to eggs/sulfur this way. Any one has a thought on what could be going on and what I could look into to help me understand this reaction?

 

[RWilly]

Could be SIBO (Small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) with sulfur producing bacteria.

 

[baccheion]

Did you try soft boiling them?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-get-smelly-gas-after-eating-eggs

 

[mogwog]

Did you try soft boiling them?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-get-smelly-gas-after-eating-eggs

Yes, same reaction.

 

[methylenewhite]

Eat yolks only.

 

[mogwog]

What's "wrong" with the whites?

 

[methylenewhite]

"Egg farts" and other side effects are caused by whites in my experience. Yolks are fine in any amount. Not that I promote binging on yolks.

 

[mogwog]

Thanks @methylenewhite!

 

[AnoushF]

I'm curious about this. I have been having a lot of gas recently, and it smells like sulfur even though I have been avoiding eggs to prevent this. I can't seem to digest eggs in any form, raw yolk, soft boiled, hard boiled, even baked into something else like bread or ice cream. So it could be an overpopulation of a sulfur producing bacteria in the gut?

 

[gaze]

I'm curious about this. I have been having a lot of gas recently, and it smells like sulfur even though I have been avoiding eggs to prevent this. I can't seem to digest eggs in any form, raw yolk, soft boiled, hard boiled, even baked into something else like bread or ice cream. So it could be an overpopulation of a sulfur producing bacteria in the gut?

sounds reasonable. Some people say vaccines cause egg intolerance, not sure how true that is though.

on a different note, I find it interesting that most of my bodybuilding friends says eggs/whey are the most gas promoting foods, even more so than fiber. I wonder why ray doesn't talk about protein farts as much as he does fiber farts/fermentation.

 

[geraldxy]

Add my 2 Cents: As i was very low-carbing i ate daily 2-3eggs, sometimes i made egg-pancake of 12 eggs at a time. I had absolutely no gas or bloating from eggs, never in this times. From no animal protein i had gas. IMHO it's bacteria who get's some egg-proteins and produces this gas because since i'm high-carbing again i sometimes get this gas also.