How to remedy your dog's food allergies

My one and a half yellow lab is suffering from severe food allergies. He has rashes, dry skin, dandruff and a habit of making them all worse, by licking nonstop! I have been to his vet many times and spent countless dollars trying to figure out what I could do to help my baby boy from his miserable state. If it weren't for his high spirits, I wouldn't have come across this solution. Here is what you should try if you've gone above and beyond for your dog food allergies.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• allergic dog
• raw food meat (e.g. oma's pride product)
• fish oil (you can buy this from Costco)

1. If at all possible, try to only feed your dog once a day and at a specific time everyday. Part of this new diet is to detoxify your dog and get him used to digesting properly or even get him used to eating real dog food.

2. Fast your dog for a whole 24 hours. That means no treats, cookies, or food of any kind. Nothing but water.

3. Since dogs are with the wolf family, the raw food meat diet should work like a charm.

4. Oma's pride (omaspride.com) has a wide selection of raw meat that you can buy and you may combine the meat of your choice to feed your dog. Note that the dog must be fed a particular amount according to your dog's weight. (E.g. my yellow lab is about 80 pounds. He eats 1.5 lbs of raw meat once everyday.)

5. If you're dog is not used to swallowing pills, you can puncture the fish oil capsules and pour it all over the raw meat before feeding your dog. Please give fish oil capsules according to weight limits on the instructions on the cover.

6. Detox takes from 1 to 6 weeks. Once your dog is showing signs of healthy skin and coat, do not stop this routine. But you can slowly combine the raw meat with other dog food. One change at a time so you can follow your dog's diet changes and allergic reactions, if any. Combining the raw food meat with let's say a little bit of Kibbles, and your dog doesn't have allergic reaction to it, may help you a lot since the raw food meat are very expensive.

Tips & Warnings

• When feeding your dog raw food meat, you will notice that he/she will poop less because there aren't a lot of artifical-anything in their new diet to process. All or most of the meat is digested and distributed where nutrients are needed.
• Make sure you get advise from a certified animal dietician and inquire about the raw food meat at Oma's Pride before feeding your dog their product.