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Originally Posted by lil fu fu girl 
Food allergies cause the epideral symptoms such as Urticaria, rash, itching, hives, inflammation, etc. Orasone is a very effective steroid used in these cases to treat these symptoms. It does not treat the allergen, whether food or environmental, but only the symptoms caused by it. The symptoms break through when the patient's system becomes adapted to the dosage given.
sferrini wrote:"She has also had injections of steroids that only worked for a week. "
This is why the injections of steroids worked, if only for a week. The strength of these dosages are usually higher than the prescription tablets given to you by the vet. Also, injections are immediate in that they are transmitted directly into the vascular system, and do not go through the entire GI tract first.
I would contact the vet and ask for another shot, and maybe you might want to think about having him give her a blood test that tests for antigen-induced antibodies in her blood. There are two that are usually done ; a RAST , (radioallergosorbent) or an ELISA,( enzyme-linked immunosborben assay).
Hope this helps. |
yep dexemothesone shots last much longer as temarilp which has prednisolone which i think is much safer and less harsh on liver is better to use and dosing every other day if using steroids is best. Unless she is going to hyposensitization shots the blood testing or skin testing is not going to do much good as blood cannot determine food allergy only environmental. When left with environmental only options are atopica, steroids, or hyposensitization shots sadly
