Dog food intolerance is more common than dog allergy, which refers to
difficulty digesting certain food components and is sometimes mistaken for allergy, which is an immune system response.
The choice, of course, is yours to make — and if your baby is prone to colic or seems to have difficulty
in digesting certain foods, then it would certainly be advisable to wait until later in his first year to give him broccoli.
As dogs age, their systems become less efficient
at digesting certain foods, and they require fewer calories as their metabolisms slow.
Food intolerances do not involve the immune system, but rather the inability to
digest a certain food.
This concept, known as food combining, recognizes that the body requires specific mediums to
digest certain foods, and that eating foods that require different mediums can slow down digestion.
The main difference in the two is that a food sensitivity causes an immune reaction whereas a food intolerance occurs when the body has difficulty
digesting certain foods.
This inflammation in our bodies, this inability to
digest certain foods all comes down to how healthy our gut flora is.
Or you could try using a product like Beano, which a digestive enzyme to help
you digest certain foods that can make people gassy.
Diarrhea can even be a sign of an allergic reaction, or an inability to
digest a certain food.
Because the time it takes to
digest certain foods is quite consistent, and you'll be feeding only one food type, if you feed your puppy the same times every day — they will eliminate at roughly the same times every day.
Usually, this means that your pup has difficulty
digesting certain foods.