Food Allergies?

Question

Anyone know anything about dogs' severe food allergies & their reactions?
Our dog is seeing the vet about his condition but I was just wondering about other peoples experiences.

Answer 1

I sympathise with you about your dogs food allergies and hope that you have a vet who is experienced in that area. You do not say what Breed your dog is I know that Shar Peis and West Highland Terriers are susceptible to allergies in general. Has your vet confirmed that it is only food that your dog is allergic to? There are good foods available on the market for food allergies I used to feed a particular brand to my Shar Pei. However when his allergies did not clear up the vet put him on a special veterinary diet, it was some type of rare fish and cereal mix. This still did not clear his allergies and they found out he was allergic to everything, dust mites, grass pollen, seed pollen, cats, most types of household cleaning products and the list goes on. If your dog is a Shar Pei I advise you to enlist the help of a vet who is an expert in this breed. If your dog is just allergic to food then just changing the brand should do the trick. My Shar Pei reacted to his allergies quite severely. His feet would swell up and so would his hocks. His skin use to itch and he use to bite it util it bled. He used to get infections after this, no matter what we did. He also use to smell really badly as his body overproduced yeast due to the allergies in his skin. Shar Peis are quite rare breeds and the severtiy of the allergies seem to be only in this breed . I wish you good luck and good health to your dog. If your dog is a Shar Pei and you have any more questions I would be happy to answer them if I can.

Answer 2

Some dogs experiance allergies from everything from grass to the pollen in the air. Depending on the dog depends on what allergies they are prone to, but food and fleas are the two number one causes of allergies.
If you are feeding a grain based food then u need to change to a more nutritional diet. Alot of dogs are allergic to the grain in the food. Your commercial brand foods like pedigree, science diet, purina, iams, eukanuba, and etc. are not good for your dog anyway. The vet will recommend science diet for sensitive skin, and from experiance, it will only cause more problems. They recommend this dog food because they get a 40 percent profit on this food. My sheltie was on science diet for years and had allergies and skin problems, when i got smart not to listen to my vet and took her off of it and put her on the all natural raw diet the allergies went away and she has beem allergy free for 10 years, she is 19 right now and going strong.
A good food that has all natural ingrediants is Innova, and this is the food my neighbor feeds her pit bull that has food allergies and has not had any troubles with the allergies since she switched.

Answer 3

This can often be hard to deal with. It can sometimes be difficult to find a food and treats that the dog can tolerate. If your vet is doing allergy testing to find out exactly what the dog is allergic to it will make it a lot easier. Good luck.

Answer 4

My dog was itching like crazy, fur loss and all... the vet determined it was food allergies since after examining nothing else was wrong. He just suggested changing his diet, he did not do any allergy testing, said to try changing his diet first (saving me the expense of testing) he felt fully confident about the diagnosis. He was right! I changed his diet to Innova which is an all natural food...no more itching. His fur is silkier, fuller,healthier. And a much happier little guy!

Answer 5

I certainly have severe allergies to all citrus fruit, oatmeal, eggs and finished wheat. As a baby, i grew to become into critically allergic to cows milk. I outgrew that hypersensitivity in my 20's. definite, you are able to 'outgrow' allergies. i'm 50 and my meals allergies began on the age of 5. approximately 8 years in the past, I ate some BBQ sauce that i did no longer recognize had lemon in it. i ended up interior the hospital for 3 days! A be responsive to warning: Many commerically arranged meals might have factors no longer listed on the label. by using regulation, the manufacturers do no longer might desire to checklist a factor under 2% by using volume! Lemon grew to become into no longer listed on the label of BBQ sauce, yet after investigating it, i found out that definite certainly it did have lemon, yet an exceptionally small volume..........too small to checklist on the label!

Answer 6

My old dog was allergic to something in cheap dog food and would turn in to an uncontrolable lunatic, shaking and bug eyed, it would kick in about 20 mins after he had eaten and would take about 4 hours to wear off. Then he'd sleep like a log.
He was also allergic to flea bites and grass and tree pollen. His skin over his kidneys would go bright red, sweaty and itchy, the hair would fall out.
Luckily our vet was clued up and suggested environmental changes rather than long term steroids.
I had to keep him de-flead, I had to change his beanbag for a plastic bed with plain undyed cotton bedding (sheets and towels); I had to boil wash the bedding once a week with no washing powder or fabric conditioner (although discovered a small amount of soap flakes eg Fairy Handwash was ok.)
As for diet, for every 20lb bodyweight I used;
1 tin (60g) sardines in oil. Use the tin as a guide, 1 tin = 1 part, add
2 parts carbohydrate (cheap dog biscuit, not the gravy basted, or potatoes, or rice)
1/2 part green leafy vegetables and carrots. I used frozen spinach nuggets and frozen diced carrot because it was easier with a small dog.

If sardines are a problem try Butchers brand tinned tripe or chicken and tripe, plus biscuit and veg.

Also avoid giving seaweed or yeast supplements (kelp and Bob Martins).

Answer 7

I once had a severly allergic dog. He was so allergic that I had to make him a homemade diet, because he couldn't tolerate any kibble. However, with diet control I was able to relieve his symptoms without medication. When I got him he had large, bald, red patches that were itchy and sore. His ears were so badly infected that they oozed yellow slime and would bleed if you even tried to dab at them with cotton balls. I had to experiment with his diet for over a year to find out what foods he could tolerate and which he couldn't.

Allergies can be a really big topic. If you want to contact me through the site, I'll be happy to try to help you.

Answer 8

my baby basset hound just has dry food.i did start him on jameswellbeloved because it has any rubbish in it but he kept getting diarreah.now he has wainrights dry food. Again this food doesnt have rubbish in that other do such as egg starch emulsifiers etc. theres also wafcol

Answer 9

Thankfully no. Our dog ate everything without problems, including chewing dirty nappies; the stink bag!

Answer 10

maybe alot of foods, because dogs only eat dog food lol, Susie