Novel protein diets are an important subject these days because so many dogs and cats have food allergies. Food allergies can cause not only GI upsets like vomiting and diarrhea, but also significant skin problems like rashes, hot spots, inflammation and even ear infections.
There are probably several triggers for food sensitivities, including feeding the same diet over a period of years, biologically inappropriate ingredients found in most commercial pet foods including additives and preservatives, and poor quality ingredients.
Pets with food allergies must be placed on novel protein diets, also called elimination diets, to allow their immune systems to stop overreacting to allergens and give their GI tracts time to detoxify, heal and function normally again. After the novel protein diet, foods can be reintroduced slowly, one at a time to monitor the animal's reaction. Pets do best at this point with 'clean' proteins from hormone-free animals fed natural diets, and a minimum of grains and other carbs, fillers and other additives.
Novel proteins come from uncommon meat sources like ostrich, quail, rabbit, bison, duck, alligator and kangaroo. Hydrolyzed protein diets are supposed to be an alternative to novel proteins, but we don't recommend them.
Read complete article: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/05/07/protein-diets-for-pets-allergy.aspx
There are probably several triggers for food sensitivities, including feeding the same diet over a period of years, biologically inappropriate ingredients found in most commercial pet foods including additives and preservatives, and poor quality ingredients.
Pets with food allergies must be placed on novel protein diets, also called elimination diets, to allow their immune systems to stop overreacting to allergens and give their GI tracts time to detoxify, heal and function normally again. After the novel protein diet, foods can be reintroduced slowly, one at a time to monitor the animal's reaction. Pets do best at this point with 'clean' proteins from hormone-free animals fed natural diets, and a minimum of grains and other carbs, fillers and other additives.
Novel proteins come from uncommon meat sources like ostrich, quail, rabbit, bison, duck, alligator and kangaroo. Hydrolyzed protein diets are supposed to be an alternative to novel proteins, but we don't recommend them.
Read complete article: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/05/07/protein-diets-for-pets-allergy.aspx
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