DOG ALLERGIES: 7 WAYS TOSTOP THE ITCHING FAST

Dog Allergies: 7 Ways To Stop The Itching Fast

I'm going to be discussing dog allergies top seven ways to stop the itching fast. What’s causing your dog to do the scratching and itching? Probabilities are the cause is allergies, but exactly to what? It can be to food, grass, and house dust mites…. There literally are hundreds of allergens.

Allergies show up in many ways, it can be the respiratory signs such as runny eyes runny nose but more common or their series recurring.

I want to get into some of the home remedies have worked for me they may also work for you.

1.  Less allergenic food you need to be feeding, go and do a proper hypoallergenic food trial where you're feeding your dog a simple food very unique protein that they've never been on before for a minimum of eight weeks.

Now I've found commercially a diet of fish and sweet potato works very well such as this natural balanced food, I mean every dog is different, so you have to try different foods, there isn't just sort of one right food, but the main principle is unique protein simple minimal ingredients avoiding artificial colors, artificial flavors preservatives feeding that new diet for eight weeks.

2.  One adequate flea control, you want to make sure you're not dealing fleas or flea allergies, you can look at using a natural flea spray, there's one I have had good results with using cedar wood oil, and also flea control in your house, you can look using a natural product such as borax putting in the cracks and crevices.

3.  Regular bathing, this is one that can't be emphasized enough in terms of the benefits of taking away those surface allergens. So as soon as, your dog is coming in from outside washing their feet well and they're walking in the grass, many of these allergic dogs have grass allergens and what we're actually finding now is we used to call it a tepee or an inhaled allergy and we're now under the belief now that is much more of these allergens on the surface of your dog's skin that are causing the problem, so if we can keep those off your dog's skin we can go a long way in decreasing the symptoms of the itching, the chronic scratching, the pol licking, my own dog gets a weekly oatmeal shampoo in the summer, when his logic signs are much more serious he's getting a bath twice a week and then wiping his feet you know either with this commercial foot bath here I just put the damp towel when he comes in from outside.

4.  Antihistamines, there's natural and conventional ones for the big flare-up, so I'll use Benadryl dosing my own dog at point 5 mg per lb, that's 50 milligrams twenty five minutes a Benadryl for my 50-pound dog Jessie and I'm giving that twice daily if needed.

Lately I have been trying Vitamin C which has some antihistamine qualities, and this itching is decreasing. The Vitamin C dose is 100 mg per 10lbs twice daily.

5.  Essential fatty add acid supplements. If your dog has allergies, he needs to be on these. I am using supplement, Ultimate Canine Health Formula, which contains the EFA’s in the form of flax oil.

The omega-3 dose I suggests specifically for these allergic dogs is a 1000 mg per 10 lbs daily-this works out to  giving 1 tablespoon of flax oil per 50lbs daily to your dog.

6.  Probiotics, they're increasingly being used for dogs with allergies, these beneficial bacteria playing a big role in normalizing the overactive immune system, you're not gonna see an insulin response, but it's something that if you're gonna see response December between 4 to 12 weeks, so you need to be on them long enough before you can say they're not working or not, the lactobacillus dose is a 1/4 of a capsule for 10 lbs of body weight twice daily.

7.  The last increasingly used ingredient for allergies is colostrum. Research has found an ingredient know as praline-rich polypeptide (PRP) in bovine colostrum, it appears to be what is helping decrease the allergy symptoms. The colostrum dose for dogs with allergies varies based on the company, I advise giving 1/4 of the human dose per 20lbs daily.

I encourage you to be systematic about this, going over these top seven suggestions, and applying them to your dog. The allergies will not go away overnight, but if you're systematic about it and consistent with it you really can go a big way in dramatically improving the quality of your dog's life.