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Canine Atopy and How to Reboot Your Allergic Dog's Health
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- Megan Marshall
- Released:
- Sep 24, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781310944123
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Canine atopy can be a most distressing allergic condition, equally for your itchy-scratchy-sad dog and for you. There are few conditions that have so many different treatment options and approaches as canine atopy or atopic dermatitis. And the responses to these treatments are just as varied and individual.
Get the information you need to navigate your way back to a position of control over your best friend’s health and well-being.
Find out about the flare triggers, the clinical diagnosis process and the treatment options, in both the conventional and complementary medicine realms.
Learn about taking charge of what your pet eats by switching to an all-natural home-prepared diet and see your dog return to glowing health.
Best of all, take charge of your dog’s long-term health to minimise your vet bills and maximise the joy of pet ownership, while taking advantage of the make-at-home remedies and treatments and other first-line-of-defence strategies for dog lovers on a budget.
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Canine Atopy and How to Reboot Your Allergic Dog's Health
Description
Canine atopy can be a most distressing allergic condition, equally for your itchy-scratchy-sad dog and for you. There are few conditions that have so many different treatment options and approaches as canine atopy or atopic dermatitis. And the responses to these treatments are just as varied and individual.
Get the information you need to navigate your way back to a position of control over your best friend’s health and well-being.
Find out about the flare triggers, the clinical diagnosis process and the treatment options, in both the conventional and complementary medicine realms.
Learn about taking charge of what your pet eats by switching to an all-natural home-prepared diet and see your dog return to glowing health.
Best of all, take charge of your dog’s long-term health to minimise your vet bills and maximise the joy of pet ownership, while taking advantage of the make-at-home remedies and treatments and other first-line-of-defence strategies for dog lovers on a budget.
- Publisher:
- Megan Marshall
- Released:
- Sep 24, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781310944123
- Format:
- Book
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Canine Atopy and How to Reboot Your Allergic Dog’s Health
By Megan Marshall
Copyright 2014 Megan Marshall
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Contents
Preface
Canine atopy—an introduction
What is allergy or allergic response?
Does breed play a role?
Diagnosing atopy in your dog
Finding the flare triggers
Fleas and bacterial infections
Environmental allergies
Food sensitivities/allergies
A modern condition?
Doing an elimination diet
Blood/Skin allergy tests
Managing atopy in your dog
Management options
1. Feeding after the elimination diet
2. Allergen avoidance
3. Hyposensitisation or immunotherapy
4. Medication
Allopathic, or conventional, drug treatments
CAM treatments
5. Topical treatments
The future
Breeding out the condition
The status quo
Hope for the future
A natural way
Natural diet
Natural life
Remedies and treatments you can make at home
Iodine paw rinse
Apple cider and hydrogen peroxide paw/skin rinse
Apple cider vinegar ear drops
Calendula ear drops
ACV rinse - Kill fleas on your pet
Topical flea-be-gone spray
Easy calendula ointment
Calendula balm
Shampoos
Basic natural shampoo
Scented shampoo
Oatmeal shampoo
Anti-itch herbal rinse
Rooibos tea salve
Antibacterial soap
Powdered eggshell
Simple sauerkraut
Bone broth
Rooibos tea for dogs
About Megan Marshall
Preface
When our vet told us our much loved cocker spaniel Beckett was atopic, it was just a word to us. My initial response was okay, so what do I give him to fix this?
It took me a while to realise that it wasn’t going to be that simple.
Canine atopy is a life-long condition that is tricky to treat because there are many possible treatment routes and regimens and because treating it properly calls for an informed and co-ordinated approach on the part of the pet owner.
To put it simply, you have to take overall charge of your atopic dog’s treatment.
An atopic dog that is untreated or whose treatment is not optimal is a miserable dog. Which goes double for that dog’s owner!
Often it can take a long while and many hours of research to sort through all the different treatment options and approaches out there and decide on the best way forward for you and your dog.
I have travelled that route and I wrote this book to save you most of the trouble and speed you on your way back to having a happy and healthy dog!
Good luck!
Canine atopy—an introduction
Although many chronic canine conditions (like diabetes and heart conditions) call for life-long treatment, it is unusual for there to be so many treatment options and regimens available for just one disease.
The broad range of treatment options and combinations available for canine atopy, in both the realms of conventional veterinary medicine and complementary and alternative medicine, makes therapeutic decisions and long-term management of the condition difficult.
You might find yourself seeing a number of different veterinary health professionals about your dog’s condition who all come at it from the perspective of their particular discipline, leaving you without a coherent management action plan.
Since canine atopy is not curable yet and the condition has to be managed over the lifetime of your
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