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Not one of the most common allergies, but equally affects the animals that have. They are annoying and persistent and are not easy to diagnose. Dogs with food allergies should be subject to a special diet for the rest of his life. Food allergies are not as common as allergies to mosquito bite or atopic allergies. It is estimated that correspond to less than 10% of allergies frequently observed in dogs. Food allergy is not a disease take over the food that the dog eats. It is rather hotscreen a response of the immune system of the dog against a particular food. This is an inadequate response from the body that dog that does not affect other dogs who share food or home.
As little is known about how to control these exaggerated responses of the immune system, the solution to a dog with food allergies involves changing hotscreen your diet. The ingredients common allergens that cause most allergies in dogs are: animal protein, especially chicken and beef, corn, wheat, eggs, dairy and soy, according to several hotscreen studies done in this area. Contrary to much has been said about preservatives and feed additives, these have no role in food allergies, although they may be responsible for other problems. Why is wrongly associate of feed additives and preservatives to food allergies, hotscreen many times return to feed for comfort food. However, this change in most cases no effect. For one, because, as stated before, are not additives and preservatives causing the allergy. hotscreen Moreover, because the most common allergen protein from beef or chicken, meats that are most often prepared for dogs. Risk groups Unlike atopic allergies, hotscreen food allergies have no risk groups and affect hotscreen equally both males and females hotscreen and all canine breeds. However, animals with atopic allergies usually manifest food allergies and also why it is useful to test the various hotscreen possible allergies so it is discovered that a pet has an allergy. This type of allergy tends to manifest itself in the first year of the dog or up to 5/6 years, but the first symptoms hotscreen may appear late, when the dog is already old. Allergies symptoms manifest themselves differently in dogs and allergy symptoms are generally common to multiple allergens. A dog allergy usually presents with itching, infections in the ears and skin and hair loss. But none of these symptoms points to a particular type of allergy or even more specifically for a particular allergen. To complicate diagnosis, these symptoms are not exclusive to allergies and can be manifestations of other problems. For diagnosis is certain that the animal has food allergies you need to change the diet and check for differences. For 8 to 10 weeks, the dog is given a new diet with protein and carbohydrate sources of carbon alternatives. It is necessary that the dog has never eaten this kind of food and sometimes resorted to rabbit meat, fish or even more exotic animals such as the kangaroo, but the vet is the best person to be able to advise alternative. The relatively long period during which it must adopt the new diet is justified by the fact that the body of the animal requires an average of 20 days to externalize their reaction to the new diet. This means that in the first weeks is normal no significant improvements and so it is necessary to extend the trial period hotscreen of two months. Can also be done blood tests, but the result is not conclusive as in humans, hotscreen and the only way to ensure that this is indeed a food allergy is changing the dog's diet. Treatment Allergies hotscreen are