Allergy to certain foods

The nourishing allergy or hypersensitivity to the food, is an adverse reaction to the ingested food immunologically half-full, the alérgenos (substance that the allergy triggers) of foods are almost exclusively proteins. All the proteins of the diet are potentially alergénicas because the immunological system recognizes them like strangers in the sensible animals this type of allergy.

The nourishing allergies approximately respond to 10% of all the allergies seen in dogs and cats. It is necessary to differentiate between allergy and intolerancia, the allergies pronounce with prurito (picazón) and the intolerancia nourishing produces diarrea or vomits and do not give a typical allergic answer.

Studies have demonstrated that certain foods can be predisponentes to allergic phenomena, most common in dogs in sequence decreasing would be: milky, chicken, soybean, meats, wheat, eggs and maize.
In cats fished, milky meat, and products.

As it is possible to be observed are the ingredients most common in the feeding of the animals, but it will depend on the predisposition of each one of them to show an nourishing allergy.

The nutricional handling of hypersensitivity to the food means to identify and to avoid to administer the food that contains the protein able to trigger the allergic reaction, to obtain this identification is necessary to administer to the animal a diet excluding the ingredients that have ingested previously during a prolonged time.

Once confirmed the diagnosis by the professional of allergy by foods, specific premium for this pathology is due to resort to a balanced food or a hipoalergénica natural diet.

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Translation and adaptation: MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna

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