Dog with allergy help.

[mummee03]

Hi all. Don't really post a lot, but I am in need of help with my dog. So we found out a while back that she has food and industrial allergies. So we cut her back from everything like vets told us to as her belly was awful and all itchy and red and sore. So she's on vet prescription food and shampoo and tablets. When we took her, she had a yeast infection due to the skin being all sore and itchy. Skin is great now, and she's doing fab. She gets her 2 showers a week, like the vet said. But she still stinks of smelly feet after a few days like a yeasty smell.

Has anyone got any advice on getting rid of the smell. Her bedding is always washed once a week or twice (sensitive washing) depending on her smell, and carpets are always cleaned and freshed, and she is not allowed on the couch or upstairs

Or if I am missing something, can someone even tell me. Am at my wits ends with it

Someone said salon oil in their food?

I wouldn’t use the vet prescription food; I’d do an elimination diet instead.

Google the elimination/exclusion diet for dogs but basically you try them on single proteins, adding in different options slowly until you find what helps and what they react to. Then you can happily keep them on that food forever without the need for tablets or other medications, washes, etc.

Fish is usually a safe place to start. And raw feeding works really well for this too.

Salmon oil is a great supplement. Proflax also do a good one, I think it’s called Skin&Coat.

Aww amazing I will look into this. The food she was giving pro plan hypoallergenic. Hasnt broke out since and wr have reduced the medication to one a week now bit still has that smell

Did you get a list of specific allergies and the suitable food for her? How old is she? Would allergen specific immunotherapy be appropriate for her? It's been amazing for our dog and very reasonably priced I think.

No they just told me to cut everything out as we did cut back food and try different foods but still wasn't working and then she got really bad in the summer with the heat belly was all cracked. So they told us just to stick to the one food
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Oh I've never heard of that. She's 2 short hair small dog

So if you look at the ingredients for the pro plan you can see A) they’re less than ideal for the overall health of your dog and B) there’s a lot in there that could be causing the reactions they’re experiencing (sugar, vegetable origins, carbohydrates).

Remember ingredients are in order of percentage so the main thing your dog is eating is corn starch and soya.

Corn starch
Hydrolysed soya protein
Minerals
Coconut oil
Sugar
Rapeseed oil
Cellulose
Glycerine (from vegetable origin)
Soya oil
Fish oil

Honestly I’d switch to a single source protein. Try it for a while. If it works then you’ve improved your dog’s health massively, if it doesn’t then the Pro Plan will still be there for you to go back to.

If it got bad in the summer and it was specifically her belly that flared up then it could also be a grass seed allergy on top of her food allergies. Keep a record of when things are happening; see if it happens next summer as well. Supplements and wearing cooling summer vests on walks would help a lot with that.

That's amazing advice. Thank you. You would think the vets would advise this when u go in time after time again