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| 1. Bathe your pet frequently with oat meal shampoo (Episoothe is the best) in cool water. No hair dryer unless it is on a cool setting. Aveeno soaks added to the bathe seem to help also. 2. Antihistamines like Hydroxyzine offer relief in many cases. If this is not enough, we tend to use safe, but more potent anti-inflammatories (Vetalog, Pred, Temaril, etc...). 3. Wipe the pollen off your pets feet with a damp cloth after coming in from outside. 4. Schedule an exam/allergy injection if relief is not achieved with conservative methods at home. 5. Avoid walking your pet during peak pollen times (pollen counts are the highest on windy sunny days...especially the morning hours)...I know, that is the best time to take a walk. If you want to check the pollen count M-F then click on http://healthweb.nashville.org/env/aqi/psipoll.html This is a great web site that many people use it to correlate their allergy and asthma symptoms to the air quality and pollen count. 6. Consider allergy testing to identify exactly which allergies your pet has; from this information, a set of allergy injections can be made specifically to desensitize your pet the things that he or she is most allergic to. 7. Make sure that your dogs and cats are on Advantage or Frontline. The last thing that you want is secondary flea allergies developing on top of primary pollen allergies. |
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