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Dick Van Patten’s Natural Balance® Original Ultra™ Ultra-Premium Dry Food is made with:

Fresh Chicken, New Zealand Lamb Meal, Duck Meal Premium quality meats (no by-products)
Brown Rice .This bran layer holds nutrients of vital importance, such as fiber and essential oils.
Fresh Carrots An excellent source of vitamin A and beta carotene.
Oatmeal An exceptional source of: carbohydrates, fiber, thiamin and vitamin E. it does not contain the allergy causing glutens found in other grains.
Fresh Potatoes Rich in potassium – highly digestible carbohydrates for energy.
Taurine Fortified New studies show that dogs need Taurine for cardiovascular health.
Skin and Coat Linoleic Acid, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Vitamin E, Biotin, and Dried Kelp -an excellent skin and coat condition for your dog.
No Artificial Preservatives, Flavors, Colors, or Bleached Ingredients. No Corn or Wheat

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Answer by Chuckles <3 BORED TO THE BONE
Yes…Very good food!

But what is your dog allergic to?

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Answer by onlymatch4u
First of all, the only thing that causes allergies must contain a protein. If it does not have a protein, the problem can be a food sensitivity.

There is a simple test that you can do to determine if she has an allergy or a food sensitivity to something. Have her sit in a chair and wait until her heart rate is constant, about 5 minutes. Then take her pulse for a full 60 seconds. Don’t do the 15 sec. multiply by 4 thing, a full 60 seconds. Write down the number. Now have her chew the thing you believe she is allergic or sensitive too for about 30 seconds. Keep it in her mouth and then take her pulse again for the full 60 seconds. Write that number down.

If there is an increase in the pulse over 6 beats, she has an allergy (if protein based) or a food sensitivity. I suggest the milk you are feeding her may be pasteurized and homogenized. That is garbage and it’s no wonder she may have a reaction to that junk. What you want to give her is RAW milk that is from cows fed grass, not some grain fed, sick cow they make the pasteurized garbage from. Most likely she is not allergic, but the altered calcium – chards of crushed amino acids that elicit a homocystein response in the body could be the real problem she has with milk.

Go to: www.organicpastures.com and look at the FAQ’s for more information on the high quality raw milk they sell.

good luck to you

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Answer by S Harris
I have never known the doctor to test blood for allergic reactions. I though it was just skin. That’s what I got tested. Do you know if you have bad sinuses? If so you may have chronic sinus infections. Also, see if you are allergic to pollen.

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any information on: allergies, development of allergies in adulthood (im 22), personal experiences, irritable bowl syndrome, anything i would welcome. I’m just at a loss, i really don’t know what this could be.

oh! other then this i am healthy and active, don’t eat fast food etc so it isn’t just poor diet in general.

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Answer by Pj
Ok, I have lots of allergies, so I might be able to help. I would say to try different things, test different foods, and see what they do to you. Also, you need to keep in mind any and all environmental factors that could be aggravating our allergies. Bottom line, go see an allergist, and seek medical attention if your symptoms intensify severely.

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Answer by Maui
Anything with soy, corn, dairy, yeast caused my dog’s allergies

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She love vegetables broccoli being her favorite. Wheat, pasta noodles fruit and soy are all safe foods for her to eat. I have bought several cook books, but have trouble finding recipes that will satisfy me, my wife (who isn’t a big vegetable eater) and my daughter at the same time.

Does anyone know of any cook books out there that are specific to food allergies and leave out MILK, EGG, Peanut and Fish in their recipes. Any help would be very helpful. Thank-you!

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Answer by shanmerica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoc4Bl1tqo

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Answer by sweetleka
It’s possible, but not TOO likely. You’d have to go see a Dietician or talk to your doctor to start a HEALTHY diet without particular foods. Then you switch foods around after a week or two to see if there’s any difference. It’s actually also possible for some of depression to be cause by a lack of certain proteins and vitamins. So again, going to see a dietician and getting some blood work done to see if you’re low in anything would be a good idea. Either way, GOOD LUCK. I suffer from a few mental illnesses myself(depression being one of them), and if all I had to do was change my diet, I would JUMP at the chance!

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I have him on a lamb and rice dog food that is supposed to be “awesome” for dogs’ with food allergies. NO wheat, corn, beef, chicken ect.

Can someone please recommend a food? Thank you.

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Answer by jtexas
You will probably end up cooking food for him.

Seriously, it might well be a preservative or some other additive common to most dog foods. You might go through dozens of different kinds of food before you find one he can tolerate.

You can cook it up in big batches and freeze it. Doesn’t have to be fancy or even expensive.

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After doing a bit of reading up on cat food allergies, I learned that it is generally the protein that the cat has the allergy to. Then I noticed that one of my favorite brands – Natural Balance – had a low-allergen food, that had no fish in it, but did have salmon oil. Well, ok, if it’s the protein that is the allergen, then the oil could possibly be ok. I went to call the vet to ask if that reasoning was, well, reasonable. The vet. we saw yesterday about the food allergy was not available for the phone, and the vet tech taking my message told me that no, you can’t give fish oil to a cat who is allergic to fish, even if all the cat is allergic to is the protein. But, she said, we should definitely try him on Hill’s Prescription Z/D. I asked her to read the label, and pointed out that it has precious little actual meat, and that my cat doesn’t do corn. In his younger days, Harvey had bouts of IBS, happily corrected by avoiding corn and wheat – and no way are we going back to that. She swore up hill and down that there was plenty of protein and no corn in it, well all except for the corn starch. I dunno, maybe in her country, corn starch is made from tree bark.

Then I checked out the Innova website, hoping to find that they had something less fishy I could try him on. Well, they have a large number of products, and it was too overwhelming to try to look at every single item. Everything I did look at, the ingredients included herring. So I emailed their customer service address, to ask if they had any canned cat foods without any fish in it, explained that I was asking because while I think their products are of excellent quality, my cat has that pesky fish allergy – and if they didn’t, would they please consider developing such a product. Their prompt reply is that, yes, there are var Innova EVO canned 95% Meat has no fish in it, but does have fish oil, but that should not be a problem because cats are allergic to the protein, not the oil.

Huh.

So, do I trust the info. from a company I already believe in, whose reasoning is similar to what I was already thinking? Or do I trust some vet tech who doesn’t comprehend that obligate carnivores need to eat meat, and has no clue what corn starch is?

Any one here have any experience, or insight into the matter?

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Answer by LP609
Have you considered California Natural? It’s the same company as Innova. I just looked at the ingredients to their Chicken and Brown Rice dry food. No fish, and the Omega 3 and 6 come from flax seed rather than fish oil.

You might still look on the actual ingredient list on the bag, but this might be an option.

EDIT: I just saw that you were looking for canned food. It looks like California Natural isn’t great for that. Darn.

EDIT2: Check out Blue Buffalo. I just glanced at their Spa Selects and Wilderness wet foods – I think they might work for you: http://www.bluebuff.com/products/cats/can-turkey.shtml

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Answer by white devil
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