That's so strange...
How did they "treat" his allergies? I mean, for example, just giving a dog Benadryl doesn't get rid of the allergies, it just masks the symptoms. Donatello has an allergy to "corn" and any form of it. I was advised to give him Benadryl- Well, they failed to mention that I should have been narrowing out the things in his life that are causing the allergies.
So, I started making a list, and testing everything I thought he could be allergic to; I just now finished the last thing on the list which was Nylon. It's definitely "corn"... He wouldn't dig and scratch, but he'd lick his paws a lot, and bald spots were showing up, and the skin would turn greyish and scaly.
I changed his food five times before I found that "corn" was the common ingredient in all five- I even tried the food made for dogs with allergies and that didn't work... I went out on a limb and found food without any type of "corn" in it, and bam! In two weeks his hair was growing back in normally...
Every now and then, if I don't think about the treats or people food I give him, and it's got corn in it, he can have a pretty bad break-out, which I use Benadryl for, then cut him cold-Turkey from other foods until it's clear.
I'm no vet by any means, but that's what happened to me and that's how I fixed it... Always a suggestion.
How did they "treat" his allergies? I mean, for example, just giving a dog Benadryl doesn't get rid of the allergies, it just masks the symptoms. Donatello has an allergy to "corn" and any form of it. I was advised to give him Benadryl- Well, they failed to mention that I should have been narrowing out the things in his life that are causing the allergies.
So, I started making a list, and testing everything I thought he could be allergic to; I just now finished the last thing on the list which was Nylon. It's definitely "corn"... He wouldn't dig and scratch, but he'd lick his paws a lot, and bald spots were showing up, and the skin would turn greyish and scaly.
I changed his food five times before I found that "corn" was the common ingredient in all five- I even tried the food made for dogs with allergies and that didn't work... I went out on a limb and found food without any type of "corn" in it, and bam! In two weeks his hair was growing back in normally...
Every now and then, if I don't think about the treats or people food I give him, and it's got corn in it, he can have a pretty bad break-out, which I use Benadryl for, then cut him cold-Turkey from other foods until it's clear.
I'm no vet by any means, but that's what happened to me and that's how I fixed it... Always a suggestion.
