Dogs of breed dachshund allergens in itself very much. Most often the allergy at them is shown on chicken and pork, on dog canned food with this meat, on fat grades of fishes, on forages the house-keeper of a class, on red vegetables (tomatoes, pepper, sometimes carrots), on dairy products, and, of course, on sweet. The allergy can be not only on food, but also on the plants blossoming in the spring, their pollen; on the earth in which your dog on walk rummages; on water in the forest small river in which you together swam in the summer; on fleas and ticks.
Allergy symptoms:
- The dachshund begins to scratch ears. They redden inside, red pimples can develop. The dachshund can have an otitis at which ears begin to flow, suppurate and unpleasantly to smell.
- The skin on a stomach and in armpits begins to be shelled, the dog often combs these places till it bleeds.
- Between small pillows of paws the pet has blisters which the dog strongly gnaws.
- Eyes begin to water or suppurate. There is conjunctivitis.
- At strong allergic reactions there can be Quincke's edema at which the muzzle and a neck of a dog swell up.
If at a dog food allergy, then it is necessary to transfer it to a quality hypoallergenic dry feed. Except a dry feed it is necessary to give water.
If you feed a dog only with natural sterns and do not want to transfer to the balanced ready-made feeds, then correct the favourite's food. Forever remove chicken meat from a diet of a dachshund. It is, perhaps, the main allergen. Change it for low-fat beef or rabbit flesh. Stop to feed with tomatoes and oranges. Do not give sweet. Food allergy at dogs can be excluded only by tyk method. Cook for your dachshund within several days only rice or buckwheat cereal on water, having added a little vegetable oil there. Perhaps, the dog will not be delighted to such change of a diet, but, having got hungry, will eat. Only be patient: you do not starve a dachshund, you restore her health. After all symptoms of an allergy disappear, begin to add other products to porridge. Check each new ingredient within a week. So you will create the list of products which the dog can eat. Such treatment quite long, but it is necessary for health of your dachshund.
At a nonfood allergy the symptoms are similar to an allergy to food. In that case it is desirable to address the veterinarian and to make the necessary tests on allergens. At allergic reactions usually appoint antihistaminic medicines which remove the naggers and irritation. The started sites of skin at an allergy need to be processed anti-inflammatory ointments that they did not begin to decay. At Quincke's edema the dog can choke and swell up, in that case better not to tighten with a trip to the doctor.
The allergy at a dachshund will never recover completely therefore treatment has to be carried out from time to time. The allergy not a sentence if in time to notice it and to eliminate, then your pet will please you all the life.