Why do some pets experience excessive itching and licking after eating certain foods? Or vomiting and diarrhea? It may be a food allergy.

1. What is a food allergy?

A food allergy is when a substance that is not originally in the body enters the After the body is in the body, the body's own immune mechanism will come out to stop it after it is discovered, and the reaction is a bit excessive, causing other unnecessary damage.

Second, tangled food allergies

Pets are allergic to food, mainly to a certain (certain) elements in a certain food , or an allergy to a certain (multiple) elements in certain foods, that is to say, all those containing this food and those containing this food element will cause pet allergies. Then, when choosing food for it, you must pay special attention, not only a certain ingredient cannot be selected, but any food containing that ingredient cannot be selected. For example, if a pet dog is allergic to beef ingredients, then any food containing beef will trigger his food allergy, even a food containing beef ingredients called chicken vegetables will also cause its food allergy, because In the main ingredients of the chicken and vegetable food, chicken, salmon fish, beef...etc. are listed in order, indicating that this chicken and vegetable dog food Contains beef ingredients.

In addition, pet allergies are not necessarily one type of food, but may be two or more. Some pet dogs or cats are allergic to beef, but also to fish. In the animal allergy test that shook the entire pet food industry, 278 pet dogs participated in the test, but found the real cause of 286 cases of allergic manifestations.

In addition, pet allergy food will continue to appear new or evolve during the growth process of pets. For example, some pets have undergone relevant tests and found that beef is the culprit causing their allergies. At that time, it was not found that dairy products can also cause it allergies, but this does not mean that he will never be allergic to dairy products, and may become a new allergic food in a future growth process.

3. List of wicked people who cause food allergies

There are many kinds of pet food and ingredients, which are more likely to cause pets What about allergies?

There is an animal research experiment on pet food allergies, and the answer is very clear: the research experiment conducted an analysis of food allergy-inducing ingredients in 278 allergic pet dogs, and found that: beef Food allergy was by far the biggest culprit (95 cases), followed by dairy products (55 cases), wheat in third (42 cases), soybeans and corn with 13 and 7 cases, respectively.

Overall, 231 pet dogs were caused by beef, dairy, chicken, lamb, soybean, pork, and fish, and only 54 were caused by wheat, corn, and rice. This conclusion It also refuted the rumor that cereals are easy to cause allergies that has been widely circulated in the pet food industry.

4. What to do?

The only way to prevent and treat a pet's food allergy is to avoid the food that causes it's food allergy. Still, there is no guarantee that new food allergies will be discovered in the future. Also, any one food can lead to food allergies in different individuals.