02/03/2023
🐶When your suffers from allergies, you might consider giving an antihistamine drug like Benadryl.
But did you know there’s a natural allergy solution contained in many fruits and vegetables? It’s a powerful flavonoid called quercetin … and it has antihistamine effects.
Flavonoids are plant-based compounds with strong antioxidant properties. And quercetin is so effective in helping allergies that it’s known as “Nature’s Benadryl.” (But it doesn’t have the risks and side effects that come with that little pink pill that’s the pharmaceutical Benadryl).
Let’s take a closer look at quercetin for dogs, and how it works.
What Are Allergens?
An allergy is an abnormal response by your dog’s immune system. It happens when his body reacts to a usually harmless substance in the environment … called an allergen. The immune system identifies certain everyday substances as dangerous. Allergens can be inhaled, eaten or even absorbed through your dog’s skin.
Types Of Allergens
There are two types of allergies: food and environmental.
Common food allergens include wheat, soy and corn. These can cause itchiness, difficulty breathing or gastrointestinal issues like vomiting, diarrhea or gas).
Common environmental allergens are tree, grass and w**d pollens, mold spores, dust, dust mites, cleaning products, insect bites and insect control products.
To minimize environmental allergens, keep things clean and use natural, non-chemical products and cleaners in your home and yard. You may need to limit the amount of time your dog spends outside when pollen counts are high.
Is It Yeast?
Sometimes, what looks like allergies could in fact be an abundance of yeast.
Too often, dogs are diagnosed with allergies when they are actually suffering from a systemic dog yeast infection. Yeast lives in the gut … which is also home to about 90% of your dog’s immune system. So it can cause symptoms that get confused for allergies.
When you’re trying to get to the bottom of your dog’s allergies, you’ll want to rule out yeast. Click on the link below for more information on how to do that.
