Parts 1 and 2 of this series were about understanding what food reactions actually are, how to identify them and what is in the food that might be triggering them. This part is about what to do with that understanding when your dog is in front of you and you suspect something might not be quite right with them and their food.
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Commercial food and food reactions: what’s actually in that bag
When someone says their dog is allergic to chicken, what they almost always mean is that their dog reacted to a food with chicken on the label. Those are not the same observation, and the gap between them is what this article is about. In this second article, I move from the “reaction” part of that term into the second half – what’s actually in the food.
Food reactions in dogs: four mechanisms that are not the same thing
“Reaction to food” is not one thing. It is an umbrella term covering four fundamentally different mechanisms that produce overlapping symptoms but require different responses. Conflating them does not just lead to wrong conclusions — in some cases it leads to management strategies that actively make things worse.
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