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06-26-2010, 06:06 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Southern California
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| Licking a LOT Looking for validation here-Latte has had allergy problems for years. She is on a very low dose of cortalone and that has been working well until recently. I was convinced that her allergies were environmental because they were so seasonal. She eats Halo wild salmon dog food with fresh fish. She's been licking so much lately that I'm considering taking her off the Halo (which now that I look at the bag has some chicken in the ingredients!!) and going back to only fish and sweet potatoes. Does anyone think I'm on the right track? |
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06-26-2010, 11:33 AM | #2 |
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| What is she licking?
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06-26-2010, 11:57 AM | #3 |
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| Are you sure they are food allergies and not environmental? You can make the switch and see if it helps
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06-26-2010, 12:33 PM | #4 |
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| Licking a LOT I'm sorry-she is licking and biting her back legs mostly. I really did think they were environmental...but everything is done blooming here and I thought she'd be past the worst of it by now. |
06-26-2010, 12:37 PM | #5 |
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| It could be something as common as pollen. Allergies are so tough to determine in dogs. My Cooper has recently been licking his mouth and has a runny nose. I've come to realize that it really only happens at night in the bedroom and have a feeling it could be something like dust mites Is there any one time that you see her licking more than others? I don't have that much allergy experience but I bet some other members can advise you.
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06-26-2010, 01:06 PM | #6 |
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| Any reason that steroids are being used instead of Atopica or allergy shots? I think I'd go ahead and talk to your about this one. Could be food allergies and environmental allergies together. But if the envir. allergies were under control and now suddenly this comes up and the guess is food...the problem is that isn't typically where itching occurs from food allergies. Could be...but maybe not. Are you sure there are no flea bites anywhere? How does her skin look? If you want to change foods to something with novel ingredients (and no chicken), that shouldn't hurt. It can take about 12 weeks to see major changes after doing that though and steroids can make them less itchy (when they have food allergies), so it may be hard to see if it is helping.
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