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Old June 7th, 2004, 06:41 PM
Karin Karin is offline
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Any time you have a food allergy dog time & patience is what you need after you switch to a new diet. Results do not happen over night. Your dog needs to be on one diet for many weeks before you can honestly say it's not working. It takes time for their body to react to the change and then accept or reject it..this is not like any medication one may be allergic too and the signs show up right away.
Have you tried the Heska blood test to see exactly what your dog is allergic to in it's diet and enviroment? I highly recommend this test for any animal with severe allergies. At the same time, (if requested) Heska will devise a desensitizing allergy injection program to desensitize your dog against these allergens. It is costly. (the latter is..), the test runs about $150.00 here. Money well spent even if you do not go ahead with the Tx. At least you would know exactly what to avoid and go from there...

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