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Food and environmental allergies

eighteen months into chasing my 3 year old goldendoodle pretzels itchy skin across three different vets, two prescription food trials that i now think i botched, an eight week home elimination diet that got contaminated by my mother in law slipping her a piece of pizza crust twice in week six, and my current GP just said "consider a derm referral" with a shrug that did not fill me with confidence, i cannot tell anymore if this is food, environmental, or a shampoo issue, and i need the actual sequence someone should run through and how you know when to give up on the general practice route

Pretzel is a 3 year old F1 goldendoodle, 48 pounds, we picked her up as an 11 week old puppy from a small breeder in january 2024, and she was fine for about the first year. things started in march of...

Posted by poodle_mix_mom_97•
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four year old golden with year round paw licking and five ear infections in two years, twelve week elimination diet got us maybe sixty percent better but not fixed, and now the dermatologist wants me to choose between cytopoint, daily apoquel, or allergy testing plus immunotherapy and i cannot tell which parts are medicine and which parts are marketing

Cooper is our 4 year old neutered male golden, 71lb, and his skin has been a slow motion project since he turned 2. the pattern is year round paw licking (front paws mostly, theyre stained pink at...

Posted by oldDogNewTricks_Mara_10•
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eighteen months of chronic itching on our four year old french bulldog mix and we have now climbed the full ladder of vet recommendations without resolution, going to the dermatology specialist next month and trying to figure out what questions to walk in with

Biscuit is our 4 year old french bulldog mix (DNA test says 62% frenchie, 18% staffy, 20% small assorted things), 31lb, neutered male, adopted from our local shelter at 8 months. for the first 2.5...

Posted by goldenmom_firstyear_72•
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two and a half year old vizsla with chronic skin issues that the elimination diet did not resolve and we are now into the environmental allergy workup, the published advice compresses what is clearly a multi month detective process into a checklist and i need the version from families who actually isolated their dogs environmental triggers and what the workflow looked like inside it

Hux is a two and a half year old vizsla we got at ten weeks from a breeder we vetted carefully and who has been a structurally healthy dog in every other way. The skin issues started at month eight,...

Posted by vizsla_chronic_skin_year_two•
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our 3 year old yellow lab has been on apoquel for two years for environmental atopy and this spring her skin got significantly worse despite the meds, trying to decide between adding cytopoint vs starting intradermal testing for immunotherapy vs switching to the newer JAK inhibitor and i cannot tell which path is right for where we are

Juniper is a 3 year old yellow lab, we got her at 8 weeks from a hunt line breeder with no family history of skin issues that the breeder disclosed. The first 18 months were uneventful. The first sign...

Posted by lab_atopy_three_years_mom•
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standard poodle 5 years old with 18 months of recurring ear infections, full allergy panel just came back showing 23 environmental allergens including 9 grasses, and three vets are giving us three different answers on cytopoint vs apoquel vs immunotherapy

Beatrix is a 5 year old standard poodle, came home at 12 weeks, was a healthy dog with no allergy signs at all until about 18 months ago when her right ear started acting up. We did the usual thing,...

Posted by poodle_chronic_ears_5yo•
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Finally figured out my dogs allergy trigger

After months of elimination diets and vet visits, turns out my dog is allergic to chicken. It was in literally everything including his treats. Switched to a fish based food and the itching has...

Posted by exhausted_dogmom_1•
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