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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I just had to tell you how HAPPY  I am for you!! Those pics speak a thousand words for your kiddo. Allergies are so miserable, and for you to have a solution is just fantastic. Is that all you changed was food, or did you do other stuff as well? |
Not just the food. He was on steroids for several months and weaned off not long ago, he takes two different antihistamines every day and baths about 3 times a week with malaseb and episooth. He has to wear jammies when we are at work and at night as if he scratches even just a little he breaks his skin. When we saw the vet derm he was rated at around 9 or 10 out of 10 for itchiness he is now mostly a 2 but can sometimes go to 3or 4 still ( no idea what sets it off as I am really strict about making sure he doesn't get crumbs of anything) if it is dust mites there is really nothing we will be able to do.
He is a year old on 6th August and will be old enough for allergy testing, so we are hoping there is something specific that we can eradicate.
His pictures at his worst are quite horrific, they are so bad that I am sure some people think that we were lazy about getting him treatment. Absolutely not the case as we were at the vet weekly I went to the derm without a referral from my own vet as I was just so devastated for him and he was so miserable. Nobody would believe it was allergies as he was so young.
My vet derm has supported me to make decisions about giving him steroids if he has a major flare up and I have a supply so we don't have to wait for an appointment. I won't do it unless I really have to as I worry about shortening his life with heavy meds, but I know that if he ever got anywhere near that state again I would prefer he had a happy shorter life than go through the awful, miserable time he had before.