Boy, I tell ya the allergy thing sucketh. Poor Maddie and I struggled with hers most of her life. We tried everything from prednisone to antihistamines to allergy shots. All with limited success. The prednisone gave her the greatest relief of those options, but the side effects are bad.

Ultimately the things that worked best for us, was changing her diet, giving her a bath every week and spraying her body down with something the vet gave us that worked really wonderful (For the life of me I can't remember the name of it right now though, but when I get home from work, I'll see if I still have a bottle of it in the cabinet).

She was never totally itch free though, even with all that work. That's one of the first things I asked Oz and Gull's breeders about, was whether they had any skin issues in their lines. It's something I don't want anymore of my puppers to have to go through, cuz they're so miserable.

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