Cat with swollen mouth, possible allergy? What food?

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My lovely ginger Tom cat keeps getting a swollen lip, have taken him to the vets before and told possible allergies but would cost a fortune for allergy tests which still might not lead anywhere. At the moment I cat work out of it’s triggered by food or what he eats out of. Last time it happened it seemed to be related to his plastic bowl, I swapped for metal and it cleared up, obviously he’s still eating out a metal bowl so this time it’s something else triggering it. I have tried several different foods, he mainly has dry food but I have tried wet. Now thinking he made need hypoallergenic food?

Has anyone else had this issue and found out what the cause is!

What brands of food is he eating?

Does he go outside? Could be environmental too

My cat has this. It used to happen every summer but now unless he's on his steroids it is a permanent thing. A small dose of prednisone keeps it down. If I don't deal with it it gets infected. I think the vet said it was a bit like an allergic but also autoimmune thing and I cant remember the right name for the condition.

I meant to say a daily dose of prednisone.

He does go outside and possibly visits neighbours which makes it hard to monitor what he eats, he also hunts.

I have tried most dry food brands, from whiskers to Ian’s, let’s at home own brand and several others.

It maybe that he needs prednisone but was hoping I could sort it without a vet visit (he hates going in the car).

Have you checked foods are grain free? Some cats are sensitive to particular flavours too

Royal canin anallergenic for a minimum of 8 weeks. Feed nothing else. No llickelicks or dreamies or anything else.
Hypoallergenic is meaningless. It's a marketing term. You want a proper hydrolysed diet.

I know someone who's cat suffers with this and it's an autoimmune thing, might not be the same for yours but definitely worth considering.

My cat has this. He can't have steroids due to other health conditions so it's treated with cetirizine which works really well. The one the vet gives is the same as the one you can buy from a pharmacy so we do that and it's much cheaper that way.

@BadEyeBri

Royal canin anallergenic for a minimum of 8 weeks. Feed nothing else. No llickelicks or dreamies or anything else. Hypoallergenic is meaningless. It's a marketing term. You want a proper hydrolysed diet.

Thank you, I will try and get some today to try. I’m pretty sure it is food related, we had it under control for a year or so but then he started getting fussy with food, lost some weight so I started giving him a bit of wet food.

It doesn't even seem to have any meat in it. Have you not tried grain free first?