Itchy beagle

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Pooch is itchy at the mo, chewing feet and scratching her body. She gets like this in summer and we've been told to use antihistamines by the vet.
Weirdly she's started up again in the past couple of days.
Does anyone have any good remedies that don't involve long term meds?

Are you on Facebook, it might be worth joining beaglesuk if you haven't already. They generally have good people with good advice.

We always give ours piriton during summer months as he definitely has environmental allergies.
Ours was still chewing his paws at times and am sure he is allergic to one of the proteins in his food. We've literally just this week moved him onto a food where the only protein is fish and he already seems much less itchy.
We used Yumega itchy dog oil for a while which definitely didn't hurt but not sure how great it was.
Think you have to really work out where the reaction is coming from. For ours if it is his food nothing will work except changing it.

Has anything changed at home recently that could have triggered it? Beagles are prone to itchy and dry skin unfortunately.

Join "The Beagle Lady" group on Facebook. Kellie is really good and she has an assistant named Jo who is a vet nurse. Or try "Beagle Banter but Better" - lots of great advice on there too.

I'm not on fb unfortunately. We moved her onto chappie and basic mixer a few years back after carefully trying other options. It's the only thing she isn't gassy and loose on. Possibly they've changed the recipe for the mixer but it didn't appear any different on the label and didn't say 'new recipe' etc.
I've been looking at 'non stinky' but it's an expensive layout if it doesn't work.

is it a parasite? Rather than an allergy?

Could be fleas, bacterial infection, yeast infection or fungal infection or mange!

Even dogs with allergies can catch these too!