Why do some pets experience excessive itching and licking after eating certain foods? Or vomiting and diarrhea? It may be a food allergy.

1. What is food allergy?

Food allergy means that when a substance that is not in the body enters the body, the body's own immune mechanism will detect it and stop it. The reaction will be excessive, causing other unnecessary damage.

2. Tangled food allergies

Pets are allergic to food, mainly to a certain element (certain types) in a certain kind of food, or to a certain (multiple) elements in certain kinds of food, that is to say, any food containing this kind of food and food containing this element can cause allergies in pets. Then when choosing food for it, you must pay special attention. Not only a certain ingredient cannot be selected, but any food containing that ingredient cannot be selected. For example, if a pet dog is allergic to beef, any food containing beef will trigger his food allergy. Even a food containing beef called "chicken and vegetables" will cause his food allergy because The main ingredients of the "Chicken and Vegetable" food are listed in sequence as "Chicken, Salmon, Beef, etc." This indicates that this "Chicken and Vegetable" dog food contains "Beef" ingredients.

In addition, pets are not necessarily allergic to one kind of food, but may be two or even more. Some pet dogs or cats are allergic to beef and fish. This is the animal that shocked the entire pet food industry. In the allergy test, 278 pet dogs participated in the test, but the true cause of the allergic manifestations was found in 286 cases.

Moreover, pet allergic foods will continue to appear or evolve as pets grow. For example, some pets have undergone relevant tests and found that beef is the culprit of their allergies. At that time, dairy products were not found to be the culprit. It will cause allergies in it, but this does not mean that it will never be allergic to dairy products, and it may become a new allergenic food in the future during its growth.

3. List of bad people who cause food allergies

There are many kinds of food ingredients for pets. Which of them are more likely to cause pet allergies?

There is an animal research experiment on pet food allergies, and the answer is very clear: The research experiment analyzed the ingredients that induce food allergies in 278 allergic pet dogs and found that beef is by far the biggest culprit in causing food allergies.First (95 cases), followed by dairy products (55 cases), wheat in third (42 cases), soybeans and corn with 13 cases and 7 cases respectively.

On the whole, 231 pet dogs were caused by beef, dairy products, chicken, mutton, soybeans, pork, and fish, and only 54 were caused by wheat, corn, and rice. This conclusion also positively refutes the rumors that have been spreading among pet dogs. There is a widely circulated saying in the food industry that "cereals can easily cause allergies."

IV. What to do?

The only way to prevent and treat food allergies in pets is to "avoid eating the foods that cause food allergies." Even so, there is no guarantee that new allergenic food sources will be discovered in the future. Furthermore, any food may cause food allergies in different individuals.