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What You Need To Know About Havanese Care - Allergies 

Allergies effecting your Havanese can greatly impact on your dog's quality of life. In order to lessen the suffering time for allergies or any other serious aspect of Havanese care, you need to choose a vet for your Havanese before your dog gets ill. You need a regular vet and an emergency vet for when your regular vet is not available. You won't have much choice with an emergency vet, but you can choose your regular vet.

Hopefully, your dog won't get any of the allergies effecting Havanese, but it can happen. It is far less stressful for your dog and you to have a vet chosen in advance, since the both of you will being a lot of him or her. Although Havanese are a relatively healthy breed of dog, they still are prone to getting allergies like all dogs can. These allergies are mostly allergies to foods, chemicals or even pollen.

When your Havanese has allergies, they will be affected in their skin and in their digestive system. Sometimes dogs get allergies to pollen and ragweed like we do, but this is rare. Skin scratching and "hot spots" (bald, red, sore patches) may or may not mean a food allergy or contact with an irritating chemical like a laundry detergent, doggy cologne or saliva from a fleabite. Make a note of when the scratching started and tell your vet.

Vets now specialize in "regular", exotic pets or livestock, and some specialize in cats or dogs. Some veterinary practices will have diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, and some won't.

Diagnosing specific Havanese allergies might take a while - as in months, but not always. This will be on a trial and error basis, especially if a food ingredient is suspect. In that case, you have to put the dog on a bland diet of boiled chicken and rice for two to four weeks, and then gradually add one new ingredient every ten days until symptoms return.

If your Havanese starts scratching so bad they bleed or leave red, hairless spots, your dog probably is suffering from an allergy that can affect Havanese, which can affect other dogs, too. Havanese allergies are usually never contagious wither to humans or to other dogs. Your dog is most likely allergic to some sort of plant, a food ingredient or a chemical in laundry detergent or shampoos.

Allergies effecting Havanese usually are treated with a combination of dietary change and medications. If your Havanese has broken the skin by scratching, then they will probably also have to go on antibiotics to prevent infection.

This might seem like a lot of work, but it's merely a change of habits. It will be worth it to give your Havanese the care he or she deserves.

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About the author: Fiona Kelly is an avid lover of the Havanese and has a popular website that can teach you how to have a happy, healthy and well behaved Havanese. Among other topics at this website, you will find out more about Havanese Allergies plus a whole lot more. This article is available as a unique content article with free reprint rights.

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