Hello everyone, I need some advice please. My cat Paulie has been itching since last fall. Here is some info..
We got her last June but she didn't start itching bad until last fall. Her papers from the SPCA said she had thinning hair on her tail probably due to an old flea allergy but her vet said she has no fleas now.
Last fall her chest broke out in little red scabs, those were bad until late spring, we don't know if they cleared up when our forced air furnace was turned off or if they went away because the Z/D was helping. She was on the Z/D from May until August and seemed to be getting better but we had to stop because she got really sick and we think it was a bad batch of food, her stomach never seemed right on the Z/D anyway's she had soft stools since she started it.
If she does have a food allergy we would like to find the source so that she can avoid those foods and not have to stay on a hydrolyzed diet forever since they aren't nutritious. After she had to come off the Z/D we tried Wellness but now she's itching more again. I don't know what to do, here is all the foods she has tried.
Nutro Max Salmon dry (she wasn't itching too much on this but she was on it during the summer before our forced air furnace was turned on)
Nutro Max Chicken wet (It seemed like she got worse when we added wet food into her diet but that was also around the time our furnace was turned on as well)
Natural Balance Original Ultra Premium dry and wet
Natural Balance Green Pea and Duck dry and wet contains no wheat, barley, rice or corn
Z/D (This seemed like it was starting to help but we had to stop it because of a bad batch and her stomach never seemed right on this food anyway's)
Wellness complete health salmon and turkey
We did notice that all of the foods she's ever been contain some kind of poultry, maybe she has a poultry allergy.
We thought about trying this food because it has no poultry in it...
Royal Canine limited Ingredient GREEN PEAS and VENISON FORMULA Dry
Ground pea, venison meal, pea protein, coconut oil, natural flavors, venison,
vegetable oil, sodium bisulfate, fish oil, monocalcium phosphate, DL-methionine,
salt, taurine, potassium chloride, choline chloride, Vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol
acetate (source of vitamin E), inositol, niacin supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-
polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), D-calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine
hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin supplement (vitamin B2), thiamine
mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement,
vitamin D3 supplement], Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], rosemary extract, preserved with natural mixed tocopherols and citric acid.
Would this be a good choice? I don't know if we should take him to a dermotologist or just keep trying different foods? Does anyone know How allergy test work, can they tell for sure if she has a food or inhaled allergy and what food it is? Thanks for your help any advice at all would help! :0)
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