Hi Terri
Did your vet explain an elimination diet to you? The initial period is very important to allow the body to get rid of all the histamines that it has been accumulating. After those 8 weeks(my vet suggests 10), you start adding food back in one at a time and feed them for a while to see how your dog reacts. This way you can determine both what he is reacting to and what is safe to give him. When I put my dog on an elimination diet, I started adding back the ingredients that were in the kibble I wanted to move him to. It has taken 2 years of playing around with my dogs diet, but we now know he can’t have chicken in any form, many grains, tomato, and most recently, flaxseed.
There are other limited ingredient diets that you can use to start with, but as Sue said, starting with homemade is best. That way you can start with even fewer ingredients. If you don’t notice your dog starting to get better within just a few days, you need to look for something else to start with.
