| If you have a pet, for me that is a dog, you would | | | | There are things that your dog's vet can do to help |
| understand that people treat their pets like family | | | | your dog but before you try with all that expensive |
| members and their best friends. That's why it worries | | | | tests try to do it yourself. Even your dog's vet could |
| us when they are sick. Dog's can be having many | | | | have troubles to diagnose dog food allergies because |
| health problems but allergies are more often than | | | | symptoms can easily be symptoms of some other |
| everything else. Even allergies are not the same. | | | | type of allergies, mostly inhalant allergies. Also dogs |
| Symptoms can be very similar but causes are | | | | often suffer from more than one problem so it |
| different. Most often allergies are from flea bite, | | | | would be wise to eliminate all other causes, to deal |
| atopy which is inhalant allergy, yeast or bacterial | | | | with one problem at the time and when it's just food |
| infections, food allergies and others. | | | | allergies left, the food trial can start. |
| Dog food allergies can be more easily developed with | | | | Even if you want to prevent this type of allergy, |
| some dogs than the others because some animals | | | | there is nothing you can do because the causes of |
| are seem to be predisposed to development of this | | | | dog food allergies are unknown. It is the same kind |
| type of allergy. What is misassumption is that food, | | | | of food that have been causing the problems to |
| which you have just presented to your dog, is less | | | | humans like beef, chicken, fish, eggs and dairy |
| likely to trigger an allergy then the food that your | | | | products that are mostly responsible for dog food |
| dog is consuming for longer period of time, maybe | | | | allergies, as well. |
| even years. That's actually how food allergy is | | | | The treatment for dog food allergies is about |
| developed in most cases. | | | | eliminating the food that your dog had previously |
| How can you recognize that your dog suffer from | | | | consumed. His meals should be replaced with a high |
| food allergy? Symptoms mostly include some sort of | | | | carbohydrate and rich in proteins diet with water and |
| skin irritation. It is itchy skin, licking and scratching | | | | nothing else for twelve weeks. New food should be |
| around the forelegs area, ears, legs, tummy and the | | | | something that your dog has never had before like |
| area around the tail. What you should also pay | | | | rabbit, duck, salmon and if you see any improvement |
| attention to is if these symptoms are seasonal | | | | after that period you can start adding the old food |
| caused by pollen or dust for example. If symptoms | | | | but one kind per time, like chicken for example and, |
| are being repeated through all year, than it is | | | | after two weeks, if nothing bad happens you can try |
| probably food allergy. Chronic ear infection which you | | | | another one. But if symptoms get back at least you |
| dog can manifest through shaking his head | | | | know that your dog is allergic to chicken. That is how |
| frequently, hair loss, hot spots can also give you the | | | | you are going to find the food that he is not allergic |
| clue. | | | | to. |