Is it okay to eat raw eggs

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Soft-boiled
Soft-boiled
Soft-boiled

Probably not. Even eggs with intact shells can contain salmonella, which can cause severe intestinal infection. I remember how in the dashing nineties in an infectious diseases hospital a man died in one day from salmonellosis. He just started to get sick so abruptly that they did not have time to save him.

And again I remember, but already Vietnam, before which I vowed not to eat raw foods, fresh juices, ice and all that. And on the very first day in Vietnam, I ate raw buffalo meat, raw egg yolk and freshly squeezed juice with ice. Because I came for exotic things. Carried away. In the sense, nothing happened.

In such cases, not everyone is lucky. Particularly vulnerable are young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and those who are already ill.

What? Yes. Pregnant women are now called simply people in the English-language medical literature. To avoid…

In fact, the egg needs to be heated to 70 degrees. Then the salmonella will most likely die. If you want a liquid egg, but more reliable, then buy pasteurized eggs. These are now being sold.

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In theory, fresh, raw eggs are rarely a threat to a healthy person. Store them correctly, cook them correctly, and then the chance of poisoning with a raw egg will be minimal.

It is generally accepted that bacteria reproduce especially well in chicken yolk. That is why different infections are grown on yolks in the laboratory.

There may be bacteria in raw proteins, but they are reluctant to multiply there. Even less chance for bacteria if this protein is mixed with sugar. It's kind of lightly canned like jam or jam. Therefore, properly prepared protein-based confectionery can be safe. If you're lucky.

Rumor has it that even under ideal conditions, approximately 1% of chicken eggs will be infected with Salmonella.

All of these rules and regulations may vary from country to country. The British swear that their super-fresh and checked eggs, stamped with a special stamp, can be eaten raw even by old people, children and pregnant women.

In general, even Salmonella must multiply for some time in order to gain strength and kill you through diarrhea. Therefore, if you quickly mixed a fresh egg with something and quickly ate it, then most likely it will cost. But if you mixed eggnog, and started drinking it after a couple of hours, and even choked on the shell that got into it, then the risk increases very much.

Do you like soft-boiled eggs? I am. My stomach holds dietary eggs up to 7 days old. I don't try others.

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