I have always drank down two raw eggs in a shake as a cheap protein supplement after a hard workout. My new girlfriend recently told me that this can kill me. Is this true?
I have always drank down two raw eggs in a shake as a cheap protein supplement after a hard workout. My new girlfriend recently told me that this can kill me. Is this true?
yes
I don't know about that but it can give you the trots.You need to ask Rocky.
anything can kill you
going down on your girlfriend can kill you
Didn't seem to hurt the egg farmers in Napoleon Dynamite, although drinking from a tall glass of raw eggs did give Napoleon the dry heaves.
so can eating cookie dough
Its called Salmonella- Thats why no one in their right mind ever eats / drinks raw eggs anymore.
Salmonella is on the egg shell not within the egg itself, so washing the egg well should do. Salmonella (and E. coli for that matter) are found in digestive tracts of farm animals.
But if you have any doubts then don't do it.
XC Junkie: One dangerous strain of Salmonella (Salmonella enteriditis) is found on the inside of the egg, not just on the shell.
To the original poster: many raw eggs are now pasteurized to destroy the Salmonella; if the ones you are eating are labelled as pasteurized, they should be safe to eat raw.
Irishguy wrote:
Its called Salmonella- Thats why no one in their right mind ever eats / drinks raw eggs anymore.
There is almost no risk at all of salmonella. Very very few eggs actually have it (I think about 1 in 10,000) and those that do have a very low chance of causing an infection.
Go ahead and have a real caesar salad if you want. Life is too short to worry about these overinflated minor risks.
40,000-50,000 diagnosed cases of salmonellosis per year (not including those that are undiagnosed because people don't go to the doctor or the doctor doesn't find it), 500 deaths per year due to Salmonella.