Allergic dog: Is cooked salmon safe? What hypoallergenic diet is best?

Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! Yes, it could be that he is also allergic to salmon. You can consider a sensitive stomach type diet which does not contain that protein to see if there is improvement. You could also try chicken as a main protein now in his next diet. Good luck and have a good day!

Dogs are omnivores and can get enough nutrition from a balanced commercial vegetarian food. If you would like to try a meat diet, you could consider a novel protein diet. A novel protein is one that Buddy hasn't eaten before. You could consider venison, bison, fish or duck. Natural Balance makes a number of limited ingredient diets that you could consider. https://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/dog-formulas/special-category-limited-ingredient-diets Another option would be to try a hydrolyzed diet. Those would be prescription only and would be more expensive, but might be a good option as well. I am attaching a handout with more information about diet trials for food allergies below. https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&id=4952600 Good luck! I hope that was helpful. Thanks for using PetCoach.

Royal canin makes other hypoallergenic diets such as rabbit and potato or Iams makes kangaroo and Oats. Purina and science diet have their share are hypoallergenic diets also it might be worth trying one of these and possibly rotating some so she does not get bored. Food allergy testing through blood is it very accurate, typically trial and error with food is more reliable

Hi, thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! There are 2 categories of what we call "Hypoallergenic" diets: 1) Novel Protein: the food is made of a protein we assume your pet has never been exposed to before. Something like duck, fish, venison, rabbit, lamb, bison, beef. The most common allergic protein is chicken not grains. So do not buy a chicken grain free diet and assume you are buying hypoallergenic, because you aren't. 2) Prescription hydrolyzed diets: These can only be bought from a Vet or with a prescription. These diets take the protein and chemically hydrolyze it to a very small size, so small that it isn't recognized by the immune system as an allergenic. I hope this helps and have a great day!

If she is refusing to eat and that is her only symptom, then she may just not like Salmon. Allergies to food cause itchy skin and skin redness and irritation. I would recommend trying chicken, turkey or venison for her to eat. She may like one of those better. Thanks for visiting Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach. Take care.

Food allergy testing is notoriously inaccurate for such fine detail and in order to determine the extent that the allergies are contributing to her symptoms i would recommend a food which has no peas/legumes and no fish. A hydrolyzed diet such as royal canin hypoallergenic for 8-10 weeks with no flavored tablets or treats. Rechallenging with separate ingredients after this can help to identify which cause a recurrence of symptoms

Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! I think that would be an excellent choice for that purpose for Poli. That is generally a well tolerated and well-balanced diet that tends to be well-tolerated. Good luck and best wishes!