--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hey All - You want to talk allergies - my middle child received her
1 yr shots on Sat. Morning and by 8:30 pm i was running to the
grocery store for benadryl(her face ballooned up - her eyes were
sweeled almost shut-and she broke out in rash/and fever - -by 9:oo
she was puckin her guts out,i stayed up with her till 1:00 for her
next dose of benadryl 1/4 of the dose as before and she got sick off
that too (allergic to bynadryl too) by 3:00 am she was fine and I
calmed down finally - talked to the vet today and she told me one in
a thousand have this reaction and next time they will omit the
lypro - well I got pissy and said WHY DIDN'T YOU OMIT IT THIS TIME -
WHY MAKE MY BABY GO THROUGH ALL THIS - even though this vet is a
family friend- I'm thinking of finding a new vet - one I can call at
9:00 at night (I tried to call her Sat. night and I got an answering
service that connected me to an emergency clinic that wanted to
charge me $85.00 JUST TO LOOK AT HER - and then the wanted to give
her a steroid shot by a vet student -the hospital only has students
not actual vet's. Just thought everyone should be aware of the shots
and one in a thousand chance of something going wrong. Connie Major
> Hi Betty
>
> Yes, you really want to avoid using steroids if you can. Of
course, you
> don't want your dog itching though either. I wouldn't want to be
itchy! Years
> and years ago I had a Lab with a skin condition and she was put
on steroids.
> Ok, this was so many years ago my parents were in charge of my
dog's vet
> care (I was a kid) and I don't know if the damage from steroids
> was well known then or if the dosages were kept low, etc. Her
skin
> condition was quite bad though and so was her itching without the
steroids. My
> dog did eventually fail from the steroid use and have to be put
to sleep.
>
> Just like with a person, there are ways to try to figure out the
allergen
> yourself. Something in his food, a shampoo, something used on
carpet, it could
> even be a hand lotion it's "person" uses. Think hard about it
and eliminate
> one thing for a couple weeks at a time and see if you can figure
out the
> culprit. There is allergy testing for dogs, too. I think it's
pretty much the
> same as the people allergy testing. It may be pricey, it may not
be, I don't
> know.
> It is so great that vet medicine now has lots of what used to be
people
> testing and surgeries for our pets. Here is a link that has a
little about
> allergy testing for dogs. Good luck and let us know what happens,
>
> _Allergy Testing in Dogs - PetPlace.com_
> (http://www.petplace.com/dogs/allergy-testing-in-dogs/page1.aspx)
>
> Katie
>
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