Egg Whites - Success, Miscarriage or Failure to get pg

[atomic sagebrush]

I did not want to post this till I heard back from the person this happened to but I've just heard a very disturbing report about someone from IG who may have used room temperature egg whites while swaying blue (they did MSU) and got a very rare salmonella infection in their IUD (docs said their IUD was crawling with salmonella) that ate thru their uterus, went into their spine and infected their brain - they were in a coma for days and almost died. I have not been able to contact this person to verify whether they did in fact use egg whites or not but until I know definitively I really, really am not wanting people to use egg whites (or use pasteurized egg whites only IF YOU MUST and whatever you do, DO NOT LEAVE STOREBOUGHT EGGS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE at all ever because the washing process forces the salmonella thru the eggshell and into the egg itself where salmonella can grow).

The egg white may not have had anything to do with it, but the only way the doctors can explain it otherwise is that this person had a salmonella poisoning in their intestines that they didn't even notice (unlikely because salmonella is usually quite severe and noticeable) and then wiped back to front and somehow that managed to infiltrate their entire repro tract (even more unlikely). I have been doing research and horses, cows, guinea pigs, and sheep are known to get salmonella infections in their uteruses that are proven to cause miscarriage and I also read about a woman who got an infection in fibroids (at least 50% of all women have fibroids) from salmonella and had to have a hysterectomy.

[Hobbermittens]

YUCK! That is scary stuff, atomic! Thanks for letting us know!! On another note, I wonder why she had an IUD in if she was swaying?

[atomic sagebrush]

She wasn't swaying, this happened 2 years later!!! My concern is that she had colonized her repro tract with a big dose of salmonella back when she was swaying, some of it stayed alive all that time, she got her IUD put in, and then the salmonella got the opportunity to start growing on the IUD and then caused the infection. That makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than asymptomatic salmonella poisoning and wiping back to front does.

Obviously a very rare chain of events that I doubt would be repeated BUT my concern is more that now we KNOW for a fact that the human uterus can be infected with large amounts of salmonella bacteria and also that salmonella bacteria can cause miscarriages in several other mammals - not a good combo.

[Foxy]

This story has me really worried. So scary! I agree with you Atomic, that it most likely is the egg whites that caused this and not the wiping back to front. I can't remember when she got her IUD in after she had her son?

[Hobbermittens]

That scares me more to think it happened that much later!! I assumed I was fine because I used the EW a few months ago with no issues (I used it in October and December). I am getting my doctor to test me next visit. I never told him about the egg whites, and I am sure he will give me a hard time about it. But I don't want that happening to me!!

[atomic sagebrush]

This story has me really worried. So scary! I agree with you Atomic, that it most likely is the egg whites that caused this and not the wiping back to front. I can't remember when she got her IUD in after she had her son?

I don't know and she and I are not friendly either so I was hoping someone who knew more might chime in. It may have been that the IUD could even have been in place for some time and then she just got run down and the infection took over.

It may very well be she didn't even USE egg whites, but at the same time I'm still really scared by this because now we totally KNOW that salmonella can infect the VJ and uterus and cause serious issues. It's almost scarier if she DIDN'T use egg whites because that would mean even a tiny amount of salmonella could cause something like this to happen, KWIM?? If something like this could happen just from wiping wrong, then I seriously don't want ANYONE using egg whites (esp. that have been left at room temperature!!)

Plus now that I started to look into it and found the info about the salmonella-related miscarriage and the lady with the salmonella-infected fibroid...I'm just feeling really wary about the egg whites right now.

[atomic sagebrush]

That scares me more to think it happened that much later!! I assumed I was fine because I used the EW a few months ago with no issues (I used it in October and December). I am getting my doctor to test me next visit. I never told him about the egg whites, and I am sure he will give me a hard time about it. But I don't want that happening to me!!

Let me know what he says Hobber. I'm going to ask my doc about it too and may even start a thread for Dr. P to chime in on.

[zanacal]

Wow, that is scary. It seems sensible to stick with things that are meant to be put up 'there' anyway, even more so with this information.

[Foxy]

I don't know and she and I are not friendly either so I was hoping someone who knew more might chime in. It may have been that the IUD could even have been in place for some time and then she just got run down and the infection took over.

It may very well be she didn't even USE egg whites, but at the same time I'm still really scared by this because now we totally KNOW that salmonella can infect the VJ and uterus and cause serious issues. It's almost scarier if she DIDN'T use egg whites because that would mean even a tiny amount of salmonella could cause something like this to happen, KWIM?? If something like this could happen just from wiping wrong, then I seriously don't want ANYONE using egg whites (esp. that have been left at room temperature!!)

Plus now that I started to look into it and found the info about the salmonella-related miscarriage and the lady with the salmonella-infected fibroid...I'm just feeling really wary about the egg whites right now.

I sent her a message. I'll let you know what she says. I can't help feeling the infection came from the EW. It could have been lingering in there for a long time and like you said when she got run down, the infection took over. It just seem so far fetched with the wiping thing IYKWIM?

[atomic sagebrush]

I totally agree foxy. That's even what made me think that it might have been swaying related, I was at the grocery store thinking about how stupid the doctor was to even suggest such a thing (thinking it was more likely the IUD was contaminated to begin with, which honestly also seems kinda unlikely really) and then I realized, "OMG the egg whites."