You may be surprised to learn that food intolerances are a common problem amongst pets.
Lower quality pet food, packed with artificial additives, chemicals and known hyper-sensitising ingredients, can often cause disturbances.
Feeding a higher quality hypoallergenic food can help to reduce symptoms.
Hypoallergenic
Hypoallergenic is a term that you may often see on labels and packaging, but what does it mean? In essence, it means the recipe helps to reduce intolerance and sensitivity symptoms, promoting everyday health and well-being as recommended by the Pet Food Manufacturers Association (PFMA).
Paws Pet Food recipes are often formulated to exclude ingredients that may cause intolerance, including grains (i.e. wheat and maize), beef, chicken, soya, or dairy. However, it is important to note that although these are able to help manage symptoms of intolerance, the recipes formulated are more accurately created to assist with food intolerances/sensitivities as opposed to allergic reactions and are not classed an allergenic pet food.
Hypoallergenic is defined as being relatively unlikely to cause a reaction. It’s important to note that every pet is individual, and not all pets will have a sensitivity to these ingredients.
“What symptoms could my pet have?”
Like humans, a pet’s health can go out of control when exposed to certain food or chemicals. Food sensitivities are whereby the animal is intolerant (sensitive) to one or more of these materials.
The body reacts to this unwanted material, and there is the belief that this causes upset to the animal by including the following gastrointestinal signs: flatulence, diarrhoea, regurgitation or even vomiting, and unwanted variation with wet or voluminous stool quality. Itching and poor skin may also be associated with adverse food reactions.
If you have noticed the clinical signs that disrupt your pets’ normal happy self and think that the diet is probably to blame – switching to hypoallergenic food is a good start! Hypoallergenic food from Paws Pet Food is formulated to work alongside the digestive system. In turn, it is made up of ingredients that are less likely to cause adverse reactions – for pets with sensitive skin or digestion.
Remember to change the food over slowly.
It is essential to gradually introduce the new food over time (usually 2-3 weeks). It takes time for the digestive enzymes and microflora to adjust. Too much disruption through changing too quickly could be counter-productive or, at worst, cause an adverse reaction. Gradually reduce the amount of old food and slowly introduce the new food to the diet. Do not anticipate the effects to be instantaneous – the effect of this diet is gradual!
Must a pet have sensitivity in order to purchase hypoallergenic food?
Most certainly not! Any pet can consume hypoallergenic food. Some people will choose to always feed this type of food because it contains reliable, good quality ingredients which are highly digestible and nutritious. Alongside this, they may already choose hypoallergenic food as a preventative measure to ensure their companions have a reduced risk of digestive upset (and less potential for having to clear up some poor ‘back end’ performance!).
Hypoallergenic pet foods have the potential to be great for all dogs!
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