What are you feeding him on Sarah? Food such as Bakers or Pedigree are full of junk and are notourious for causing skin problems.

I have a dalmatian who had terrible skin as a puppy, he was on Pedigree puppy and as soon as we switched to a better hypo-allergenic brand (James Wellbeloved in our case) we have not had any problems at all.

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he has been eating hills science plan puppy food.

hows the skin 2day sarah?

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Kelsie

Hi
I have a 10 month old staffie who has skin problems as well, he started with a small bald patch which went flaky ... he also had irritation in his ears.

We took him for scrapes and ruled mites etc. He doesnt seem to be bothered by it too much. The vet seems to think it is an allergy probably to pollen etc.

We gave him a course of hayfever type tablets prescribed by the vet, which worked a treat however i dont want to give him too much medication especially as it will be for months over the summer if i can help it.

The best advice i have been given is to find honey that is produced locally - this will have been made by the bees who pollenate the local flowers which he is allergic to (therefore by eating this you get kinda immune) and i have to say it has worked he has no irritation or flare up since.... works in humans as well, gave it to my husband who has really bad hayfever...

Hope that helps

I have never heard of that before, but will give anything a try! This is for my hayfever and not my dogs as they are OK

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I know, I only found out about it a few months ago from a friend who has a lab which had the same irritation and so far it has worked .... and much healthier than taking the drugs!!

Great advise, I was actually recommended this for something else with my Misty, but cannot remember for the life of me what it was, it may have been for the swellings on her face.
regards
Sue

Its pretty much the same, no worse and no better. its mainly on his chest area and then he has an area under his chin and on inside of one leg, its such a funny colour, like a rust colour is the best i can describe it.

hi, we have a ten year old female staff. we got her when she was twelve weeks old and even then she had severe skin problems. she has been having treatments ever since.

six years ago we took her to a dermatologist who did some skin tests. the results came out that she had dermatitis due to dust mites, allergy to grass, sheep skin, pine, etc. a vaccine was developed and she'd been going for monthly injections up to recently. the scratching diminished, but never stopped completely.

by chance we switched to a different vet who's closer to us, and he decided to give her a blood test to determine if she had any food intolerances... the results came and we finally we have found out what she's really, mostly allergic to... pretty much all foods, except turkey and white fish.

we've removed all those foods from her diets and at last, at the age of ten, she has stopped scratching.

always showering her after she's been out in the park has also helped to keep her clean from grass spores. a mild shampoo is best, something with aloe for example.

we've never stopped trying with her... right now, she's obviously not happy about being denied of her favourite foods but, like a proper staffie, she's accepted the situation very rapidly and she's showing great maturity and courage.

such a good girl

i just wanted to share my story because, i believe, not many vets take into consideration food intolerances when dealing with skin problems. something that in hindsight would seem so obvious!

best of luck

Hi, my dad had a staff x and he was allergic to loads of foods. They changed him onto a hypoallergenic food, wheat and gluten free, with no dairy and no additives and he was fine

I am also told (I might be wrong!) that staffies are prone to skin irritation? And that getting them allergy tested is a good idea if they start showing signs of irritation.

My pup's mum was allergic to something and it made the skin on her paws really red. She was fine when we fed her good quality food and Luckily none of the pup's have shown any signs of being allergic to anything.

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