Do you have her on grain free food? I have a 5 yr old bichon that has HORRIBLE allergy's. He looks like a "normal"dog from about Nov-Feb, then after that starts get red paws, licks and licks to where the sound is enough to drive you crazy! 2 year we did shots, benedryl with NO luck the shots just made him pee everywhere.....anyway by the end of the summer every year it would look like he had mange, his whole backside was red, balding, etc.....I switched to grain free with NO corn and no wheat and for him no chicken or duck...not all are allergic to this but he was. We alternate between Taste of the wild buffalo/bison and natures variety instinct and it took about 3 mos to really tell the difference.....but the difference is AMAZING!!!!!! This is his first full summer being grain free and we just now started getting the itchy paws about a week ago from his grass allergy......without the food change it would have been an entire summer of misery.
If you have not tried the grain free yet, it is so worth the switch. I will not even give him corn/wheat treats but he is a totally different dog! |