Diets for skin problems in dogs

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The speed with which we currently live our lives is something that brings us many health problems. Bad diets, bad emotional management, bad posture when working, little sleep, ... These are some of the things that we usually leave behind, in the daily life of the most devouring daily life ... and we also transfer this to the dogs, the bad habits when it comes to taking care of ourselves, and taking care of them, taking them out a little, playing nothing with them and giving them a diet based on industrial food.

Today vet offices are full of troubled dogs of the skin, which is related in a large percentage to a poor diet, generally based on pellet feed. Without further ado I leave you with this recipe book of diets for skin problems in dogs. Do not miss it.

Does my dog ​​have skin problems?

Skin diseases are the most common problems treated by vets. In many areas of this country, they represent more than 50% of all the animals that come for consultation, and up to 70% of these same dermatological problems are due to a food allergy. In a previous post, dogs and food stress, I explain how keeping your dog eating feed all his life is a major source of stress in the dog's life.

What does my dog ​​eat?

Several veterinary studies worldwide show that the cause of most skin problems in our dogs are induced by industrial food or feed for dogs. Dietary deficiencies are one of the causes, due to the lack of nutrients such as zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E, protein or some essential fatty acids, to which our dog is subjected to a diet based only on dry feed.

However, dietary hypersensitivity and food intolerance are more likely to be the reason for illness than a nutrient deficiency. This is all due to the large amount of additives and chemical compounds of all kinds in which these industrial foods are rich and that subject our dog's immune system to extra stress when it comes to having to process it. In a previous article, in History of the Pet Food Industry, I explain how the industry works and I give you several lists of additives and compounds with which it is manufactured.

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Which of the diets is correct?

Ideal healthy diet

Basic protein sources

A controlled diet is a long-term treatment only acceptable for food allergies that cause skin disease. A controlled diet is thought to be balanced and allergen free, and they are made with the ingredients most likely to be tolerated without problems by the dog. Some studies show that there are foods that are less likely to cause allergies in the animal, such as lamb, chicken, horse meat, venison and rabbit, since they are not generally found in commercial foods.

Unprocessed foods

The lack of processing of these foods, makes them less likely to elicit an allergic response. One of these sources of protein is combined with boiled rice or potatoes to form the diet that will serve as food (not including anything else), for at least three weeks. There are many gastrointestinal disease management diets that can be used for skin conditions. Sometimes itching continues for months after food is eliminated from your daily diet. It is better to maintain the diet for at least 3 months, before drawing conclusions about the cause of that Itching.

And the food for allergy problems on the market?

Feed for skin problems

There are many commercial diets that are available for the treatment of food allergies. The lamb and rice are generally the main ingredients of this type of diet. Of course, thanks to the over-processing to which they are subjected to convert them into the dry ball format of industrial feed that we know, they may not be very effective in treating your dog's disease.

Skin conditions and itching caused by food allergies will often go away when dogs start eating lamb and rice on ready-made BARF-type diets. Many times, skin problems return when fed commercially prepared lamb and rice diets. Apart from mostly synthetic vitamins and minerals, these foods contain no other types of nutrients. Commercial diets contain fillers, additives, and preservatives that may be responsible for relapse of allergic skin disease in the animal.

An animal may be allergic to other types of industrial preparations that it consumes, such as toys (be particularly careful with cheap toys from Chinese stores), sweets, or preparations for the supply of vitamins and minerals. Vitamin and mineral preparations contain meat products and additives to which an animal may be allergic. Allergy signs often reappear when an animal-based vitamin and mineral pill is added to balance a controlled diet.

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How do I know if my dog ​​has a food allergy?

The Truth About Allergy Testing

I leave here the opinion of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Donald Strombeck (one of the largest organizations in existing canine nutrition) on this subject:

The diagnosis of food allergy can be difficult to prove. There are no reliable laboratory tests to confirm food allergy as a cause of gastrointestinal or skin disease. Intradermal skin tests are often used to identify different allergens as the cause of skin disease, however, no studies have shown that the skin food allergen test is reliable. This test usually produces false positive reactions that overestimate the incidence of food allergy.

Many times, I have seen how a person spent thousands of euros on allergy tests on their dog and has achieved practically nothing, while continuing to give him industrial food in dry balls.

Doctor Strombeck tells us about the tests:

Food allergy testing may also include radioallergoadsorption testing (RAST) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis. These tests detect specific antibodies against specific allergens, here food allergens. No studies in dogs and cats show any value for these tests. Many chronic skin problems are evaluated with blood tests and skin biopsies. Complete blood counts and blood chemistry panels provide little useful information for identifying allergies or intolerances.

How to know if the diet works?

According to Doctor Strombeck

All chemicals are released only after the leukocytes interact with the food allergen. When the allergen is gone, the release of these chemicals stops.

Sometimes the chemicals continue to appear spontaneously without the allergen. This spontaneous chemical release can sometimes last for months before it subsides and stops. In these cases, the animal may continue to show clinical signs of allergy even though the allergen is not present in its diet. In this type of case, it is easy to get confused and believe that the treatment failed or that the trigger allergen was not found and remains unknown. Patience is important when establishing a dietary treatment in animals with food allergies.

But what do I feed him? My vet says natural food is bad for my dog

My dogs are privileged. They have a more careful diet than that of a king, and it only takes up a small part of my time and money. I refer you to the entrance Canine Feeding Guide. There you will see what is good for you and what is not.

Day by day, canine nutrition training from a veterinarian that has just finished the race, is practically nil, together with the fact that feed brands give free lectures and seminars where they are indoctrinated so that they themselves sell this type of food, because we can already imagine the whole picture.

A dog has 99% genetic parity with a wolf. Can you imagine a Wolf getting sick from eating a whole deer, bones included? Logic leaves little doubt since if the main food in their daily diet made them ill, they would have been extinct centuries ago. Natural diets are much safer than diets based on poor quality feed.

Dogs have more problems generated by feed, which is a type of food that is a century old at the most and is full of chemicals and lacking in nutrients, than by a healthy diet, based on natural foods, and the most free of processed possible.

A varied and natural diet will result in a healthy dog and without a doubt with much less chance of developing any skin problem related to a food allergy, than one fed with pellet feed. And if your vet tells you that natural food is bad, ask him what does he eat.

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Dog food recipes

Before cooking

These recipes are all developed by Doctor Strombeck, in his book  Home-Prepared Dog and Cat Diets: The Healthful Alternative, being translated and adapted for the Spanish public by me.

All these diets are developed to treat skin problems of dogs, caused by food allergies, and come with corresponding nutritional information for the dog.

Before starting to cook, it is advisable to remember that the meat will be given raw and with the bone in all recipes, as long as it is for a small animal. If it is beef, lamb, horse or bull, it is better to remove the bone and leave it as a recreational bone. They get nutrients from that activity too.

If you do not want to give it natural bones, you can always add bone meal as a food supplement

Rabbit with Cooked Potatoes

  • 250 of fresh Rabbit.
  • 300gr of potatoes cooked with the skin and everything.
  • 60gr of Broccoli or Cabbage.
  • 10gr of Olive Oil
  • 3 milligrams of salt
  • 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
  • 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 647 Kcalories, 29,3gr protein, and 17,6gr of fat, to cover the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos)

You can cook the rabbit if you want, boiling or frying it for about 3 minutes. This will make it more digestible and increase its caloric range somewhat.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the powdered bone (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the rabbit and the potatoes.

Beef and potatoes for adult dogs

  • 250gr of fresh veal.
  • 300gr of potatoes cooked with the skin and everything.
  • 60gr of Broccoli or Cabbage.
  • 10gr of Olive Oil
  • 3 milligrams of salt
  • 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
  • 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 656 Kcalories, 35,7gr protein, and 15,7gr of fat, for meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) for a day. Well served so you don't go hungry.

You can cook the veal if you want, frying it for about 3 minutes. This will make it more digestible and increase its caloric range somewhat.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the powdered bone (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the veal and the potatoes.

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Rabbit and boiled rice for adult dogs

  • 250gr of fresh Rabbit.
  • 320gr of long grain white rice.
  • 60gr of Broccoli or Cabbage.
  • 10gr of Olive Oil
  • 3 milligrams of salt
  • 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
  • 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 651 Kcalories, 29,2 g protein, and 18,2 g of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos). You can cook the rabbit if you want, cooking it or friend it for about 3 minutes , although that, as I have indicated before, will raise your caloric range.

The rice is better to have it in water for a while and then leave it past in doing so, that is, overcooking it, so that it is softer. This way it will be more digestible for the animal.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the powdered bone (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the rabbit and the rice.

Venison and boiled rice diet for adult dogs

  • 150gr of Venison.
  • 320gr of long grain white rice.
  • 60gr of Broccoli or Cabbage.
  • 10gr of Olive Oil
  • 3 milligrams of salt
  • 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
  • 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 651 Kcalories, 29,2gr protein, and provides 18,2gr of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos). You can cook if you want the venison, friendolo or in the oven for about 3 minutes, although that, as I have indicated before, will increase its caloric range.

The rice is better to have it in water for a while and then leave it past when doing it, that is, cooking it more, so that it is softer. This way it will be more digestible for the animal.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the powdered bone (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the rabbit and the rice.

Growing Rabbit and Potatoes for Dogs

  • 200 of fresh Rabbit.
  • 250gr of potatoes cooked with the skin and everything.
  • 60gr of Broccoli or Cabbage.
  • 10gr of Olive Oil
  • 3 milligrams of salt
  • 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
  • 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 511 Kcalories, 24,6gr protein, and 17,6gr of fat, to meet the needs of a breed puppy of medium size dog.

You can cook the rabbit if you want, boiling or frying it for about 3 minutes. This will make it more digestible and increase its caloric range somewhat.

As always, make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the bone powder (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the rabbit and the potatoes.

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Tips

I have left you tips when it comes to cooking the diets, in each of them. Follow them when it comes to making diets better adapted to your dog. Lose the fear of giving him the meat with the bone, all raw. If they are small animals, nothing happens. It is not good to give the knee bone of a calf, however with the bone of a chicken, a rabbit or a partridge, it will not have problems and it will be tremendously nutritious.

You can always complement these recipes with a natural or Greek yogurt, if possible without sugar. If you want to sweeten it a little, there is nothing sweeter and healthier than honey, if it is bought in a herbalist and is natural, better than better.

Without further ado, thank you very much for reading me and if you have any questions, I will be happy to help you. Leave them to me in the comment of this post.

Greetings and take care of your dogs !!!


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  1.   Alajandra Tint said

    I love the articles on this page, they are very useful and interesting 😀

    1.    Anthony Carter said

      Hi Alajandra, thank you very much for your comment. All the best

  2.   Louis S. said

    Greetings Mr. Antonio Carretero. My congratulations on your articles. I am a Veterinarian, graduated 21 years ago, clearly dedicated to Intensive Poultry Farming, hence my closeness to concentrated animal feed plants. I have 4 years studying everything about canine nutrition, and 2 years putting into practice the acquired knowledge (balanced home diets), the positive changes are much more than remarkable. I hope that your articles reach many people who love their dogs, and help them to open their eyes, to so many diseases that are of close appearance, precisely to the appearance of dry (concentrated) feed. God bless you.

    1.    Anthony Carter said

      Hello Luis S. Thank you very much for your comment and for participating. A pleasure to be able to help all of us have better our dogs.
      A greeting!

  3.   Monica said

    Antonio !! Congratulations! Looking for information on natural nutrition I came across your article… Any advice or homemade diet for dogs with skin allergy problems? Thanks!!!!

  4.   Gi said

    Thank you very much for sharing this super useful info !!

    Doubt ;: «1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets» the ratio (1/5) is very subjective .., could you be more specific?

  5.   Toñy said

    Hi Antonio, I have a 3 year old golden with atopic skin and allergies (legs and ear). I don't know exactly what he's allergic to, and they send me atopic feed, but it's very expensive and I can't afford it right now. Can you recommend homemade meals for me to improve? It is that he really has a terrible time.
    Thank you

  6.   Beto said

    Oh ... several of the recipes include rabbit.
    When I was a child I had a pet bunny. I can't feed my dog ​​rabbit. very sorry…

  7.   Hector said

    Hi Antonio thanks for your advice and recipes my question is what do you mean with 1/5 tablets, is it one fifth of a tablet or is it one to five tablets? Thank you.

  8.   Ruth said

    I have a 7 year old Maltese who suffers from a food allergy which manifests itself with recurrent gingivitis, which makes him take antibiotics too frequently for my liking and I would like to know if there is a diet that can help him
    Thank you very much in advance

  9.   macarena said

    Hello my dog ​​is allegical but I don't know what .. he is 4 years old and I was giving him the feed that appears on the tv the last brand .. it is chicken or it depends but he puts the back of scale .. it itches and bites, And the belly turns pink, he is a winemaker with yorsay ... I have been giving him the feed I think the pound brand of salmon but of course sometimes I want to give him something else in this day because I take a party and I do not know what to give him a lot of grace I await your answer a greeting.

  10.   alba sophia said

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I will start to put into practice all your advice, I have a puppy with skin problems

  11.   Marlene said

    Excellent article, which allows me to gain knowledge about the truth of feed and proper nutrition for canines.

  12.   Carmen said

    Hello Antonio, I really liked your article and how you describe the need of our dog, I have a question: the amounts you put are for a table and would I have to give him three a day? Or if you can clarify, thank you very much, I hope to read more about the health of my cocker spaniel who has been with puppies all over his body for a year now, he has a very bad time, this one with otitis suffers a lot to see if I give him this diet ,a greeting.

  13.   Pepa said

    Hi good afternoon.
    I have a standard American Bully and weighs 37 kilos, has
    Three years old, when he was four months old, he started with problems in his fingers and ears, in his fingers they come out like pupae, and they become infected, ... the vet sends him antibiotics and that is what he takes away from him.
    We have always changed food and the problem continues.
    My question… .the amounts you put in are for one day?

  14.   Miriam said

    Hello good evening… .my dog ​​who is a Spanish water dog from being a champion of La Rioja now that she scratches and pulls her hair, due to some redness that she has on her body and her skin is falling off ... her hips have super rough hair and from her ribs up beautiful .... I'm already desperate I don't know what to do ... thank you

  15.   hope grajales said

    thanks for the advice my dog ​​is 10 years old he has a skin problem, how do I know if I will be
    giving the amount of nutrients when preparing a homemade diet thank you.

  16.   Paola said

    Hello!! Consultation I have a sharpei dog with a food allergy, he is already 1 and a half years old, he eats royal canin hypollargenico, the veterinarian advises me to cook horse meat with Italian pumpkin, he is hungry, perhaps I give him very little I would like him to guide me. Thank you.