| Food Allergies
This article is about pet's health and how food allergies can affect them.
To start, one of the things I ran into as a practicing veterinarian all the time was a wrong idea about what food allergies are. The common response when the possiblity of this being the problem was brought up was, "But he's eaten the same food all of his life."
Allergies are an over response of the immune system to something in the body or on the body (as in a contact allergy). The immune system gets a stronger response against whatever it protests the more it is exposed to it. Therefore, the most likely food allergy candidate is one who has "eaten the same food all his life".
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