Pet allergies?
November 30th, 2008 by admin
KDub asked:
Does anyone have any advice for me? My 2 yr old male black dachsund is losing his hair, has rashes in his armpits, and sometimes spits up plhegm. ive been to the vet and they have run blood tests and told me cats but since they were out of my life the allergies have not gone away. when we give him steroids its better but we cant continue with them much longer…
Does anyone have any advice for me? My 2 yr old male black dachsund is losing his hair, has rashes in his armpits, and sometimes spits up plhegm. ive been to the vet and they have run blood tests and told me cats but since they were out of my life the allergies have not gone away. when we give him steroids its better but we cant continue with them much longer…
additional info:
we had allergy blood tests done at the vet. it came up pos for cats. but we have completely removed all traces of cats from our lives. we have seen 2 vets. they do now know what to do. we give him fish oil everday. steroids every other day. we have him on specialty anti allergin food. he is energetic and happy other than the hairloss and rashes. sometimes he bites at his feet. we have not had any skin scraping done.
- Posted in Asthma
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hi Kylie…one of my clients has a westie with a similar problem and what we’ve discovered that has helped is having him eat a raw food diet. For some reason this has helped minimize the allergic reactions.
Some of the anti-allergen foods prescribed still have ingredients that pets react to so the raw diet may be another avenue to consider. Grains are considered one of the factors known to cause the allergic reactions.
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