Dietary Management Because dietary allergens can play a role in IBD, your veterinarian may recommend a food trial
using hypoallergenic diets.
Not exact matches
Weekly, bi-monthly or monthly medicated baths,
using daily ear washes,
Hypoallergenic prescription
diet food and treats, medications (Apoquel, Atopica, antibiotics, antifungals, allergy immunotherapy, etc), routine lab work and exams are necessary to keep your pet in their best health to avoid flare ups and addressing any skin issues before they become worse.
To help determine what your pup is allergic to, a veterinarian will
use an 12 - week elimination trial, replacing the current food with a strict
hypoallergenic diet that excludes any treats or table scraps.
Royal Canin
Hypoallergenic — Royal Canin
Hypoallergenic is a highly digestible and palatable formula that is specifically formulated for both an elimination
diet or trial and error, or for long - term
use for dogs that have allergies to certain ingredients.
Sensitive skin dog food includes products that are formulated
using a hydrolyzed
hypoallergenic dog
diet.
This is an everyday
diet which can be
used to help keep weight off your cat as well can be
used as a
hypoallergenic formula.
Your vet will advise you on the most appropriate
diet to
use — this might be a home - prepared
diet, or your vet may suggest a special «
hypoallergenic»
diet for the trial period.
We focus on the two main strategies that vets
use to help dogs with food sensitivities: limited ingredient
diets and
hypoallergenic foods.
A case report of three German Shepherd Dogs with EPI demonstrated that a
diet with 19 percent fat (on a dry matter basis) was well tolerated and resulted in weight gain, decreased diarrhea, and an improved coat (the
diet used hydrolyzed protein, which is processed in such a way as to render the proteins nearly
hypoallergenic).
Osborn, Sarah Colombini DVM, Southwest Veterinary College, Houston: «Optimal
use of
Hypoallergenic Diets»
In the case of
hypoallergenic diets for pets with food allergies, prescription
diet companies take special precautions to avoid contamination of these
hypoallergenic diets with common proteins that could evoke allergic responses,
using separate facilities or equipment than
used for their other foods.
Lamb and rice
used to be the combination of choice, but most premium dog food companies now have a lamb and rice
diet, so
hypoallergenic diets of fish and potatoes or venison and rice have taken their place.
Diet should be modified for affected dogs by
using either an elimination
diet or a
hypoallergenic diet.
He first states that the current approach to treating IBD in pets is to
use a combination of «expensive
hypoallergenic diets» and drug therapy.
Alternatively,
use one of the
hypoallergenic cat
diets in which antigenic particles have been destroyed (hydrolyzed protein) such as HA, z / d etc..
Therefore, low - allergen or «
hypoallergenic»
diets are based on novel protein and carbohydrate ingredients that are not commonly
used in commercial pet foods.
Trials of special
hypoallergenic diets are
used to diagnose food allergy.
If they don't help it would be worth trying the
hypoallergenic diets (Purina LA tm or Hill's z / d tm) but these have to be
used for at least three to four weeks before giving up on them, in order to really rule out the possibility of a food allergy.
When it is not easy or financially difficult to pursue definitive diagnostic testing it is OK to
use «trial and error» approaches to this problem but that often means lots of two and three week trials of medications or
hypoallergenic diets and coping with the diarrhea for a while.