Puppy itching and itching

[AndreaWOOF]

Sorry to hear about your pup's itchy condition :(

The Omegas should support skin & coat health but excessive itching is a common symptom of a food allergy or sensitivity. I don't know if you've looked at the ingredient listing in most commercial pet food, but the list is extremely long. It may be difficult to figure out which ingredient(s) she's reacting to even if you compare the RC to her old food. I suggest preparing meals at home so you know exactly what you put into them, and what works well with her system.

Keep us posted!

[AmeliaPond]

Just wondering how are her ears? I mean are they free and clean of any gunk? Only reason I'm wondering is Khan has terrible allergies to both food and environment. He never has any hair loss, or hot spots; but when he has a reaction/flare up, His ears get red and within a day he will start to develop black gunk in his ears. If he's reacting to something he's eaten his ears go back to normal color and the gunk goes away once that item is taken away and through his system. The environmental ones bring the same symptoms to him; but I have to treat them with an OTC allergy pill. Same results though, once he has them in his system, ears go back to normal. I have gotten to were I flip his ears back periodically just to "check" that all systems are "normal"

Can I ask...what OTC allergy pill do you use?

[Khan]

Can I ask...what OTC allergy pill do you use?

I am using Zyrtec right now. It's a 24hr one, so he gets a pill every morning. I have also used the generic benadryl from walmart, it's really cheap, and that one worked well also. That was a 12hr one, so he got it with breakfast and dinner.

[luisadet]

I´ve wrote a post with all the ingredients of both foods, but I don´t know what is going on... my message did not appears here!
It said the moderator had to approve it!

[luisadet]

I had said that I already tried the raw diet, but she vomited all , every time that I fed her raw ...

Here in Brazil the "best" food we have in the market is Royal Canin, Hill´s, Eukanuba, Pro Plan... then you can imagine how great it is to me! :/ Those foods are like "wow" on Brazil... because they have a very known name around the world and are imported :p they are very expensive for here!
For you have an idea, that Royal Canin Hypoallergenic I had to buy, I paid about $ 38.00 a 4.4 lbs package!!! Hill´s Science Diet is the most expensive I guess... a 6.6 lbs package of Hill´s SD Puppy costs about $40.00 and the 33 lbs package costs about $93.00... !!!!! The others have similar prices...

All those foods are awful in my view!

Again the ingredients of Royal Canin Hypoallergenic:

Broke Rice ( as the first ingredient!!!), hydrolized soja protein, animal fats, beet pulp, vegetable oil, borage oil, zeolite, fish oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides, tirosine, taurine, marigold flower extract, palatabilizant, trace-elements, minerals and vitamins. ANTIOXIDANTS: propyl gallate, BHA.

The old food is made in Brazil... the name is "Guabi Natural" ... it can not be good enough, but comparing with those other in the market, looks be the best choice... maybe I can be wrong... don´t know... here the ingredients:

Fresh Chicken Meat, Whole Rice, Chicken Liver, Chicken Meat Meal, Chicken Fat, Rice, Beet Pulp, Brewers Yeast, Canola Oil, Flaxseed Oil, Corn Gluten Meal, Flavor, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Potassium Chloride, Bicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Citric Acid, Taurine, Rosemary Extract, Inulin, Glucosamine Sulphate, Chondroitin Sulphate, Yucca Extract, Mannan-oligosaccharides, L-Carnitine, Beta Carotene, Zinc Proteinate, Selenium Proteinate, Psyllium, Vitaminic Mineral Premix.

[Unosmom]

the second food appears to be better, but if your dog has yeast infection, then you want to avoid yeast in food as well.