Sunday, September 18, 2016

Benefits Of Using Allergy Relief For Dogs

By Angela Hill


Dogs are prone to allergies and the worrying issue is that the allergies are incurable. However, there are a number of proven practices and medications that act as allergy relief for dogs. Allergies are usually caused by allergens such as mittens, grasses, molds and pollens. However, the process of eliminating allergens is difficult since pets are active and playful. They tend to play in dusty, muddy and wet areas where allergens thrive.

Techniques that you can adopt to safeguard the health of your pet include dusting your house, ensuring that windows remain closed when it is dusty outside, changing filters in your air conditioners and vacuum cleaning. Note that cigarette smoke also causes allergies in pets. It is therefore advisable to smoke far away from your dog to ensure that it does not develop an allergy.

Pets should also be kept away from dusty places, laundry rooms, garages and damp basements. When trimming the grass on your lawn, make sure that the pet is not in the vicinity. It is also a good practice to always clean the animal after coming from outside because its fur and legs hide allergens. Pets ought to be kept in the house at dawn and at dusk. This is simply because pollens are widely scattered in the air at dawn and dusk.

Feed your dog with fresh pet food. Unfed food should be stored in a freezer using a stainless pet bowl made of glass rather than a plastic bowl. There are several natural remedies to relieve pets with allergies. You can introduce fatty acids to the diet of your pet to boots its immune system. It actually takes three to six weeks for the fats to dissolve in the body of the pet.

You can also use yucca as a good anti inflammatory especially if your pets have itchy skin. Yucca as a natural product is supposed to be inserted in pet food on a daily basis. This product lacks side effects and can also be applied on itchy skin to act as relief. If you value the life of your pet, purchase yucca from pet supplies retails found in your area of residence.

Pet owners also use special shampoos to clean pet furs as a way of eliminating allergens. Most shampoos have natural ingredients such as oatmeal that are therapeutic for itchy skin. Furthermore, there are conditioners that have fatty acids, emollients and moisturizers to sooth the fur of a pet. These products can be bought from pet supplies stores.

The first medications that should be used whenever a pet develops allergies are antihistamines. However, this medication reacts differently with pets. There are some pets that respond well with the medication while others do not. Take your dog to a veterinary specialist to determine whether it responds well to antihistamines. If it does, follow the prescription the veterinary doctor for your pet to be relieved from allergies.

Just like antihistamines, steroids are also manufactured to reduce the symptoms. However, these products take time before they are effective in the body of any pet. Furthermore, it is recommended that pets take a slightly higher dosage of steroids during their first time. As time elapses, this dosage can be reduced. This type of prescription mitigates common side effects like vomiting, diarrhea and irritability in pets.




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