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Problem with vitamin uptake?
Hoping someone here can give some suggestions with our minpin.
Still dealing with itchy skin and hair loss. Some past history: We thought he had allergies, so we took him off the commercial food and switched completely to raw. Started him off on chicken, hair loss and itchyness got worse. Figured he was allergic to chicken, he spent the first year of life mainly on a poultry based diet, and not great quality. He was switched commercially to orijen and acana before putting him on raw. Switched him to a diet of raw rabbit and bison, he got organ meats, seemed to get better for a while, then it got worse again. Dog cannot live on rabbit alone, and had a heck of a time finding other proteins that he could eat. Nothing made sense, vet is at a loss and like us, throwing darts at a board. Her last suggestion was hydrolyzed food from Science diet (um, no). research shows minpins can get a condition called adenitis. Started with the oil soaks and baths, and vitamins. We saw improvements. His whole body peeled with the baths, skin became inflamed, so we put a stop to the baths. It seems now we are dealing with vitamin deficiency, or an inability to uptake or process, and the culprit seems to be vitamin E. We give daily vitamin powder mixed with some coconut oil now. Also an oral dose of cod liver oil - vitamin E - and a small dose of flax combined in a syringe. We also rub vitamin E oil on his skin nightly. It seems to be working but we don't understand the why. This has been ongoing for 2 1/2 years now. He's back on raw chicken, no ill effects. So it doesn't seem like allergies. |
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