🐾 **Hydrolyzed Protein Diets Are Important Choices for Elimination Diet Trials!** 🐾
Cutaneous adverse food reactions can currently only be diagnosed by elimination diet trials and provocation challenges. Diet trials should be performed with prescription or home-cooked diets to ensure there are no unlabeled ingredients that could interfere with results.
Because food allergies in dogs and cats are most often caused by protein ingredients, the two types of ingredients for elimination trials are “novel” protein or “hydrolyzed” protein.
Hydrolyzed protein diets are considered some of the best for elimination diet trials.
Here’s why:
🔬 Hydrolyzed Proteins are proteins which are broken down into small components, making them less likely to cause adverse food reactions.
🔬 Finding truly “novel” protein ingredients is challenging due to the diversity of dietary options on the over-the-counter market.
🔬 Cross-reactions between seemingly novel proteins can lead to adverse skin reactions.
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