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We've had Gizzy for a couple of months now. Everytime he gets vaccinated, he has an allergic reaction and his hair falls out, even with the premeds. It seems to grow back and then when he goes back for his next round of vaccs, it falls out again. About 2-3 weeks ago, my mom took him for his vaccs and pointed out the hair loss to the vet. He said to skip the vaccs because he was afraid that they might push him over the edge and instead gave him a Pred injection and some fish oil to put on his food. He had been given Pred injections before, during the vaccination time. Mom came home and put the fish oil on his food and within 15 minutes, I noticed his neck, chest and belly was really really red. Then I noticed little pustules or hives. We immediately gave him Benedryl and a few minutes later he had diarrhea and vomiting. I picked him up right after he vomited because he thought he was in trouble and he started seizing. We rushed him to the vet and he had to stay over night. They weren't sure if he was going to make it because they were scared to give him anymore meds that he may be allergic to. With him having a reaction that close to the fish oil, I had a gut feeling that's what caused it but his food had it in there too. I thought maybe the fish oil in the food caused the hair loss, but the higher concentration that we poured on the food made him have a full blown reaction. So I found a puppy food (Nature's Recipe) that didn't have fish oil and his hair started growing back for about a week or so. It looked really good and then in the past 2-3 days all that hair fell out again. He hasn't had any vaccs, so there's got to be something else he's allergic to that I'm missing. We did a skin scraping and it was negative. Any suggestions?
Sorry it was such a long post. I wanted to be very detailed. I'm trying to upload pics but my email is being stupid and won't let me open the attachments my mom sent me.
Sorry it was such a long post. I wanted to be very detailed. I'm trying to upload pics but my email is being stupid and won't let me open the attachments my mom sent me.