Seeking Natural Remedies for Dog With Chronic Allergies
I am reporting my dog's allergy symptoms, medications and food in hopes of getting him help with a natural cure.
He is a mixed breed rescue: approx. 65 lbs. 3 years old.
He has been tested for environmental allergies and he is allergic to 53 out of the 55 grasses, trees and plants tested for.
He has been taking Atopica for at least 1&1/2 years. He takes 50mgs on the odd days and 100mgs on the even days. In addition. he also takes diphenhydramine HCI antihistamine: 100 mg in the morning and 75mg in the evening. At all times that I've tried weening him off, his symptoms come right back, almost immediately!
The food he is eating is: Pedigree canned: 1/2 cup daily and Sportmix Premium: 2 cups daily. Sportmix Premium has: 21%crude protein, 12%crude fat, 4.5% crude fiber: meat meal, ground yellow corn, chicken by product meal, ground wheat, chicken fat, dried beet pulp, salt Vitamins: A, D, E, B12, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, biotin, calcium iodate, copper sulphate, ferrous sulphate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, magnesium oxide.
Please help and thank you for being available.
Kathy
Mpls., Mn
09/07/2015
Hey Kathy!
The #1 problem I see with your dog is his diet; you are feeding him a corn based diet with low grade chicken protein; both these components are known to cause skin problems and allergy problems in dogs. The #1 thing you can do to help your dog is to change his diet - home cooked or RAW is ideal, but barring that upgrade the kibble to a grain free corn free diet that has named protein sources and not by-product-meal.
The next thing I would do if this were my dog is to alkalize his water and rotate that with borax in the water. I would do 2 week cycles of borax water, then plain water then baking soda water then plain water and so on.
I would also add probiotics of some kind to the diet - I would vary the source, so one bottle from the health food store of say - DDS/wFOS and then when out the next bottle might be PB8 - and so on. I would not try yogurt because the dairy might cause problems, but you could try kefir, or raw sauerkraut or other fermented human foods - just no onions.
Additionally turmeric in his food may help, along with yucca and quercetin for inflammation; also consider colostrum from the health food store to try to rebuild his immune system.
Lastly, I would also bath my dog in Ted's Mange remedy to start, switching to the anti-staph dip after that.
Good luck and please report back!
Virginia
08/01/2021
My dog had terrible allergies until I out him on beef thymus capsules. They have them on Amazon. He weighs 75 lbs. so he takes half the human dose. It makes all the difference in the world.
