Food Allergy help needed - MyCorgi.com2024-03-29T08:37:19Zhttp://mycorgi.com/forum/topics/food-allergy-help-needed?feed=yes&xn_auth=noTwo of our seven dogs have HO…tag:mycorgi.com,2009-03-16:1150197:Comment:3513782009-03-16T15:04:58.295ZCindihttp://mycorgi.com/profile/cindi
Two of our seven dogs have HORRIBLE allergies. Poor Ayla (our female catahoula) looks like you tied her to a truck and dragged her down the street! We finally settled on Natural Balance Lamb allergy formula with no grains. What a HUGE difference!! My goodness, she hasn't looked normal in two years but now she's just gorgeous. The NB is expensive. But, we've made other cuts in our budget to accommodate it since it works so well.<br />
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As for your lab's ears, your collie licking them can be the…
Two of our seven dogs have HORRIBLE allergies. Poor Ayla (our female catahoula) looks like you tied her to a truck and dragged her down the street! We finally settled on Natural Balance Lamb allergy formula with no grains. What a HUGE difference!! My goodness, she hasn't looked normal in two years but now she's just gorgeous. The NB is expensive. But, we've made other cuts in our budget to accommodate it since it works so well.<br />
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As for your lab's ears, your collie licking them can be the underlying cause of the yeast. Do you clean their ears regularly? Just take a cotton ball and some alcohol and clean them out every few days. It will make a difference in the ears. As for your collie's coat and skin, Beneful and ProPlan are not as good for the skin as some other more nutritious foods. By adding the Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil you are doing a great thing. It's wonderful for skin and coat. However, both ProPlan and Beneful are hard on coat and skin. A more nutritious food, when you can afford it, will help even more.<br />
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Do you have a furminator? Sometimes you can get them on this site relatively inexpensively. It will help strip the coat on your collie and get her skin exposed to the air a bit more. Man, that furminator is a lifesaver for a double-coated dog!<br />
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Best of luck, If Colleen is still itchy, tr…tag:mycorgi.com,2009-03-16:1150197:Comment:3512582009-03-16T13:13:58.126ZCorgibyassociationhttp://mycorgi.com/profile/Corgibyassociation
If Colleen is still itchy, try Avoderm. It's a little bit pricey but they don't need to eat as much. Cloud's coat looked the best on that food than it did before.
If Colleen is still itchy, try Avoderm. It's a little bit pricey but they don't need to eat as much. Cloud's coat looked the best on that food than it did before. Thanks for the suggestion! Th…tag:mycorgi.com,2009-03-14:1150197:Comment:3493412009-03-14T01:04:10.697ZNicolehttp://mycorgi.com/profile/Nicole
Thanks for the suggestion! They were close to needing a new bag of food, so I bought a bag of Nutro Natural Choice Venison and Brown Rice, which is yeast free. Colleen's skin is doing better than it has in a long time, so I'm not convinced that her problem is food related, but Tucker's ear infections are always yeast infections, so it should would be ironic if he got yeast infections because of a yeast allergy. If this doesn't seem to help, I may get him allergy tested.<br />
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Thanks again for the…
Thanks for the suggestion! They were close to needing a new bag of food, so I bought a bag of Nutro Natural Choice Venison and Brown Rice, which is yeast free. Colleen's skin is doing better than it has in a long time, so I'm not convinced that her problem is food related, but Tucker's ear infections are always yeast infections, so it should would be ironic if he got yeast infections because of a yeast allergy. If this doesn't seem to help, I may get him allergy tested.<br />
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Thanks again for the help. Our Weim is very allergic to…tag:mycorgi.com,2009-03-11:1150197:Comment:3467202009-03-11T13:56:35.854ZCorgibyassociationhttp://mycorgi.com/profile/Corgibyassociation
Our Weim is very allergic to everything. He's allergic to environmental and food items. He got 3 bouts of staph infections, lost a fair amount of his hair and was almost bloody with the amount of scratching he did. We initially thought it was a wheat allergy but his problems still continued. We paid about 300 to 400 dollars for a blood allergy test to find out that he's allergic to yeast, corn, beets, rabbit, turkey, dust, and a whole bunch of trees and weeds and flowers (and embarrassingly,…
Our Weim is very allergic to everything. He's allergic to environmental and food items. He got 3 bouts of staph infections, lost a fair amount of his hair and was almost bloody with the amount of scratching he did. We initially thought it was a wheat allergy but his problems still continued. We paid about 300 to 400 dollars for a blood allergy test to find out that he's allergic to yeast, corn, beets, rabbit, turkey, dust, and a whole bunch of trees and weeds and flowers (and embarrassingly, outside of the yeast, corn, beets and rabbit--I'm allergic to the same things thanksgiving has sucked so much since i found out.) Looking at the proplan, your pups could very well be allergic to the yeast in the food.<br />
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Rice can also be problem with some dogs. If you can't get the allergy test done, you should try the take away diet. Get the suspected items and feed them only that and if its ok, then that's not a problem. Also, maybe just try another dry food. Avoderm has been really good and Blue Buffalo is pretty good too.<br />
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Being in Georgia myself, I understand what you are going through! Our Weim came from Arizona so at about 6 to 7 months he went crazy with allergies. Also, keep in mind there may be cross reactivity from the pollen/fruit that your dogs eat or veggies.<br />
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If anything, please, please try not to over use steroids. They can build tolerance to it and I would hate for that to happen.<br />
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Best of luck and if you have any questions, I would gladly do my best to help.