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Originally Posted by 107barney  We have been down the allergy road as well. Tons of money spent on unreliable food allergy testing and environmental allergy testing only gave us useless and unreliable information. When I took Daisy to a veterinary dermatologist, I started getting answers. Fortunately, our dog is able to stay on Neoral (atopica) and do very well without even having to go to maximum dose.
My suggestion is to heed the advice you are hearing - get to a dermatologist. He or she will recommend a diet and any medications that may be used. In our case, I spent years changing this protein or that carbohydrate and going nuts to be honest -- only to learn that food allergy testing in dogs is unreliable and basically useless. It's been a couple of years for us so maybe the testing has changed but I'd avoid doing anything more until you have an expert guiding the process.
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you are so lucky yours can tolerate the atopica my dd started throwing it up after a year and even that year we had to still give temarilp with it
Yep Blood cannot determine food allergies only elimination diet and 10% of allergies are food anyway HOWEVER a dog with allergies should always be on a minimal ingredient diet as to not over tax the system as allergents can build up in the body and trigger itching