최초 출판:11월 15일, 2012년 Cats.Dr.의 식품 알레르기에 대해 Floppycats와 시간을 내어 이야기해 주신 Dr. Jean에게 감사드립니다. Jean의 책인 The Complete Guide to Holistic Cat Care:An Illustrated Handbook은 고양이 건강 및 관리에 대한 전체적인 접근 방식에 대해 자세히 알려줍니다. Jean은 또한 그녀의 사이트에서 Jean Hofve 박사와 함께 고양이의 음식 알레르기에 대해 다루고 있습니다. 또한 그녀는 Only Natural Pet에 기고한 기사 - "알레르기 개요 - 3부작 시리즈 중 1부"입니다. 이제 여러 인터뷰를 진행했습니다. Jean 박사와 함께, 그들 중 하나를 자유롭게 확인하십시오:
- 진 박사의 고양이 알레르기
- DVM의 Jean Hofve 박사와 함께한 고양이 비만
- DVM의 Jean Hofve 박사와 함께한 고양이의 신장 질환
- Jean Hofve 박사와 함께한 고양이 결막염 및 고양이 헤르페스
- 고양이 변비 – Jean Hofve 박사와 함께하는 변비의 원인, 증상 및 치료
- Jean Hofve 박사와 함께한 고양이의 음식 알레르기
- 고양이를 위한 백신:Jean Hofve 박사와의 인터뷰
Jean Hofve 박사와 함께한 고양이의 음식 알레르기
오디오 녹음:고양이의 음식 알레르기에 대한 Jean Hofve 박사의 인터뷰(여기를 클릭) 또는 아래 YouTube 동영상을 재생하여 들을 수 있습니다. 우리 대화의 녹취록입니다.
Jenny :오늘은 2012년 10월 29일입니다. 오늘은 Dr. Jean Hof와 함께 음식 알레르기에 대해 이야기할 것입니다. 진 박사님, 저와 이야기해주셔서 다시 한번 감사드립니다.
박사님. 호프: 반갑습니다.
제니 :음식 알레르기와 관련하여 고양이에게 가장 흔한 알레르기 문제는 무엇입니까? 음식입니까 아니면 다른 것입니까?
Dr. 호프: 수의과 피부과, 위장병 전문의의 말을 들어보면 실제로 흡입 알레르기가 더 흔합니다. 그러나 가장 흔한 것은 벼룩에 물린 알레르기, 그 다음이 꽃가루, 집먼지 진드기 등의 알레르기이고, 그 다음이 음식 알레르기입니다. 그러나 약간 꼬인 점은 일부 피부과 의사가 귀 감염의 경우 귀가 빨갛게 가려워지면 그 중 최대 50%가 음식 알레르기라고 생각한다는 것입니다. 고양이. 그들은 염증성 장 질환이나 심지어 림프종으로 발전할 수 있는 위장관에 나타날 수 있으므로 확실히 처리하고 싶은 것입니다. 그러나 일반적으로 설사나 구토입니다. 또는 피부에 발진, 특히 고양이의 경우 나타납니다. 얼굴, 머리, 귀 주위. 귀앞에 저런 대머리 아세요?
제니 :예.
닥터. 호프: 그것이 가려워지고 찢어질 수 있는 첫 번째 장소입니다. 보호 장치가 없으며 작은 뒷발을 잡고 갈기갈기 찢습니다. 그래서 그들에게는 분명히 매우, 매우 불편합니다. 그리고 물론 뒷발을 사용하여 긁기 때문에 고양이 상자에서 대변 박테리아를 바로 옮기고 2차 박테리아 감염을 일으키고 정말 큰 혼란을 겪게 됩니다.
Jenny :네. 나는 그것을 보았다.박사. 호프: 예. 분명히 알고 계실 겁니다.제니 :좋습니다. 가장 일반적인 세 가지를 나열했습니다. 흡입제라고 했더니 잠이 온다는 소리가 나요?Dr. 호프: 벼룩 물린. 벼룩.제니 :벼룩. 감사합니다. 그렇다면 말이 됩니다.Dr. 호프: 벼룩을 다루는 것은 어렵습니다. 의심의 여지가 없습니다.제니: 예. 제가 뉴멕시코나 콜로라도로 이사할 이유가 충분합니다.Dr. 호프: 콜로라도 좋네요. 예. 여기에 벼룩이 많지 않습니다. 나는 코네티컷에서 온 누군가가 살고 있었고 그녀의 고양이가 벼룩을 들여온 집으로 이사하는 실수를 한 적이 있습니다. 그 집은 온통 엉망이었습니다. 그러나 우리에게는 토종 벼룩이 많지 않습니다. 야생 동물이 그것을 가지고 있으므로 고양이가 사냥을 나가면 고양이가 벼룩을 얻을 수 있습니다. 하지만 꽤 이례적인 일입니다.제니 :확인. 그래서 이것은 약간 주제에서 벗어나지만 그 코네티컷 집에서 벼룩을 없애기 위해 무엇을 했습니까?Dr. 호프: 나는 폭탄을 터뜨렸고, 벼룩 폭탄을 했다. 나는 지금 그렇게하지 않을 것입니다. 그게 내가 수의대에 들어간 첫 해였다. 이제 나는 그들이 그들의 일을 보장하기 때문에 해충 구제업자를 데려 올 것입니다. 그러나 그 일이 진행되는 동안 하루 동안 고양이를 밖으로 내보내야 합니다. 따라서 방해 요소는 정말 고통스럽고 방해 요소가 있으면 처리하는 것보다 방해 요소를 제거하는 것이 훨씬 쉽습니다.Jenny :확인. 네, 동의합니다. 늘 내가 충분히 오래 하지 못할까 걱정이 되기 때문에 오늘이 하루라는 것을 알게 되어 다행입니다.Dr. 호프: 구제역은 카펫에 무독성 붕사를 사용하고 그런 종류의 것이므로 나쁘지 않습니다. 폭탄, 나는 그것들을 사용하는 것이 끔찍하다고 느꼈습니다. 우리가 해변에서 한 블록 떨어진 곳에 살았고 밖에 앉아서 벼룩이 문을 통해 뛰어드는 것을 볼 수 있었기 때문에 나는 캘리포니아에서 수년 동안 그렇게 했습니다. 그것은 나쁜 상황이었습니다. 하지만 콜로라도에서는 그런 문제를 겪지 않아도 되어서 정말 정말 운이 좋습니다.Jenny :네. 매우 좋군. 저는 학교에 다닐 때 뉴멕시코에 잠시 살았고 당시 남자친구의 고양이에게 벼룩이 생겼습니다. 그리고 그는 내가 캔자스 시티에서 비행기에서 그들을 데려왔다고 하나님께 맹세했습니다. 벼룩이 비행기를 타고 살아도 살아남을 수 있을지는 모르겠지만.닥터. 호프: 아마 아닐 겁니다. 하지만 당신은 절대 모릅니다.Jenny :일반적인 알레르기 문제를 나열했습니다. 음식 알레르기의 징후에 대해 더 자세히 말씀해 주시겠습니까? 귀 바로 아래, 눈 영역 위를 언급하셨습니다.Dr. 호프: 예. 음식 알레르기에 대한 가장 까다로운 점은 다른 알레르기와 구별하기 어렵고 알레르기 검사 중 어느 것도 고양이에게 특히 효과적이지 않다는 것입니다. 개에서 혈액 검사를 할 수 있고 벼룩과 집먼지 진드기 알레르기, 나무 꽃가루, 풀, 곰팡이 등을 검사할 수 있습니다. 그런 검사는 고양이에게 무의미합니다. 강아지의 경우 매우 정확한 피내 피부 테스트를 수행할 수도 있습니다. 다시 말하지만, 고양이에게는 완전히 가치가 없습니다. 따라서 알레르기처럼 보이는 것을 다룰 때 그것이 어느 것인지 말하기는 꽤 어렵습니다. 그러나 그것들은 일종의 보편적인 것입니다. 나는 잠시 옆으로 가고 싶습니다. 많은 사람들은 고양이가 음식을 따거나 설사를 하면 오, 음식에 알레르기가 있다고 말합니다. 아마 아닐 것입니다. 그것은 아마도 우리가 음식 과민증이라고 부르는 것입니다. 그것은 진정한 알레르기가 아닙니다. 알레르기는 실제로 면역 체계와 관련이 있으며 알레르기 항원과 관련이 있습니다. 예를 들어 닭고기는 가장 많이 노출되는 음식이기 때문에 개와 고양이에게 가장 흔한 알레르기 항원입니다. 그리고 우리는 당신이 어떻게 알레르기에 걸리는지에 대해 조금 후에 이야기할 것입니다. 그 단백질은 실제로 혈류로 들어가야 하고, 면역 체계는 이에 반응하고 항체를 만들기 시작해야 합니다. 그러면 항체를 만드는 세포인 B세포는 모두 위장관으로 흘러내려가 위장관 내벽을 따라 모이게 되어 알레르겐이 혈류를 통해 들어오는 바로 그 자리에 좋은 방어선을 갖게 됩니다.; 그들은 그렇게 하지 않으려고 노력합니다. 장에 염증이 생기면 구토나 설사를 하게 되는 상황입니다. 하지만 음식 과민증은 똑같은 증상을 유발할 수 있고 생검으로 알 수 있는 유일한 방법이 있기 때문에 절대 모를 수 있습니다. 치료법은 비슷하므로 고양이에게 800~900달러 절차를 진행해야 합니다. 그러한 증상을 유발하는 다른 것들과 음식 알레르기를 구별하는 것은 매우 어렵습니다. 그래서 제가 사람들에게 경고하고 싶은 것은 그것이 그렇게 나쁘지 않을 수 있기 때문에 음식 알레르기라고 성급히 결론을 내리지 말라는 것입니다. 수정하기가 더 쉬울 수 있습니다.Jenny :그렇다면 음식 과민증이나 음식 알레르기가 무엇인지 알아내려고 할 때 일반적인 치료 옵션에는 어떤 것이 있습니까?Dr. 호프: 둘 다 치료법이 식단을 바꾸는 것이기 때문에 어느 것이 더 어려운지 알아내는 것도 어렵습니다. 이제 음식 알레르기의 경우 고양이가 노출되지 않은 것으로 변경하고 싶을 것입니다. 알레르기는 거의 항상 단백질에 대한 것이고, 거의 항상 고양이가 시간이 지남에 따라 노출된 것들에 대한 것입니다. 여자가 그릇을 내려놓고 강아지가 그것을 깔개 아래로 밀어 넣는 어리석은 Purina 광고를 기억하십시오. 왜냐하면 그것이 새로운 음식이기 때문입니다. 그러면 그들은 매일 Purina를 읊조립니다. 아니요. 음식 알레르기를 일으키는 좋은 방법입니다. 몇 년 동안 매일 같은 것을 먹이십시오. 그러면 음식 알레르기가 생길 수 있습니다. 따라서 예방하는 것이 더 쉽지만 치료를 통해 그 음식에서 그들을 제거할 것입니다. 이제 음식 과민증의 경우 특정 조직 방식이 아닌 브랜드나 맛을 바꾸는 것만으로도 문제가 해결될 것입니다. 하지만 음식 알레르기가 있으면 완전히 다른 단백질 공급원으로 바꿔야 합니다. 고양이의 주요 알레르겐은 닭고기, 쇠고기, 생선, 밀, 옥수수 및 유제품이므로 우유와 치즈 등입니다. 그런 것들은 대부분의 고양이 사료에 들어 있습니다. 특히 생선은 정말 좋은 브랜드가 많이 생선을 향료와 필수 지방산 공급원으로 사용합니다. 따라서 고양이에게 무언가를 주기 때문에 진정으로 저자극성 식품이나 새로운 성분 식품이라고 부르는 것을 찾기가 꽤 어렵습니다. 지금까지 없었던 소설. 이것에 대한 왜곡은 저자극성 또는 알레르기를 주장하는 양질의 일반 의약품이 많이 있다는 것입니다. 그것은 사슴 고기와 완두콩이나 오리, 토끼, 에뮤, 비버 또는 무엇이든 같을 것입니다. 그러나 식품이 만들어지는 방식과 라벨에 표시되어야 하는 방식 때문에 연구는 사슴고기라고 불리는 식품에서 모든 종류의 단백질을 발견했습니다. 그들은 사슴 고기를 찾지 못했지만 닭고기를 찾았고 쇠고기를 찾았고 많은 물건을 찾았습니다. 그래서 처방전없이 구입할 수있는 브랜드는 그렇게 신뢰할 수 없습니다. 그러나 물론 처방전 브랜드는 모두 끔찍한 성분입니다. 그러나 증상이 사라질 때까지 처방전 브랜드로 시작해야 할 수도 있습니다. 그런 다음 다른 것들을 다시 추가하고 고양이가 어떻게 행동하는지 볼 수 있습니다. 100% 완벽해지려면 8-12주가 걸립니다. 음식 알레르기인지 확인하기 위해 다이어트 실험을 하려고 하는 경우. 음식 과민증이라면 식단을 바꾸는 것이 즉시 도움이 될 것입니다. 진정한 음식 알레르기가 있기 전의 피부와 위장 민감도는 몇 주 안에 해결되지만 피부 증상은 몇 달이 걸립니다. 따라서 피부 발진과 가려움이 있는 고양이의 음식 알레르기인지 확인하려면 다음을 수행해야 합니다. 100% 독점적으로 먹이는 당신이 알고 있는 정말, 정말 순수하고 간식, 간식, 속임수, 바닥에 치킨을 흘리지 않고 고양이가 그것을 먹습니다. 그 어떤 것도 먹을 수 없습니다. 그래서 어렵다. 피부 증상은 음식 알레르기일 때 해결하기 정말 어렵습니다. 하지만 기본적으로 모든 치료법은 음식을 바꾸는 것이며, 음식을 어떻게, 얼마나, 어느 정도까지 정말, 정말 완벽해야 합니다.제니 :네.닥터. 호프: 알레르기에만 해당 수준의 엄격함이 필요하기 때문입니다.Jenny :확인. 글쎄, 그것은 내 고양이에게 악몽처럼 들린다. 어젯밤처럼 우리는 베트남 음식을 먹었고 그는 춘권 치킨을 좋아합니다.Dr. 호프: 예. 그러니 진짜 음식 알레르기라면 속일 수 없다.제니 :맞아요.닥터. 호프: 야구에는 눈물이 없고 고양이를 속이는 일은 없습니다.제니 :네. 그가 그것에 대해 얼마나 미친 지에 따라 그것은 꽤 힘들 것입니다. 그러나 그것은 의미가 있습니다.Dr. 호프: 글쎄, 당신은 몇 달 동안 중국 음식을 멀리해야 할 것입니다.Jenny :네. 그것은 확실히 의미가 있습니다. 그렇다면 정말 알레르기 예방에 대해 걱정할 필요가 없는 걸까요?닥터. 호프: 네, 물론입니다. 음식 알레르기를 예방하는 가장 좋은 방법은 몇 년 동안 매일 같은 음식을 먹이지 않는 것입니다. 음식을 자주 바꾸는 것이 좋습니다. 그리고 제가 추천하는 또 다른 것은 건조 식품을 중단하는 것입니다. 왜냐하면 건조 식품에는 한 번이 아니라 두 번 열처리되기 때문에 알레르겐이 훨씬 더 많기 때문입니다. 그리고 그런 종류의 열은 단백질을 변성시켜 변형을 의미합니다. 그들은 모두 뒤틀리고 고양이 같은 웜푸스를 얻습니다. 면역 체계가 가장 먼저 선택하는 것입니다. 그리고 그것이 열 가공 식품에서 많은 음식 알레르기가 생기는 곳입니다. 통조림 식품은 열처리되지만 훨씬 낮은 온도입니다. 건조 식품의 온도 처리는 약 250도, 통조림은 약 160도이므로 크고 큰 차이가 있습니다. 그리고 또한 최고의, 최고의, 최고의 건조 식품은 여전히 모든 가공, 탈수, 첨가제, 방부제 때문에 좋지 않습니다. 건사료에는 이 모든 것이 있어야 하고 습식사료에는 거의 없을 필요가 없습니다. 그 용어를 사용하고 싶다면 비교적 깨끗한 습식사료를 얻는 것이 훨씬 쉽습니다. 우리 고양이는 같은 식사를 연속으로 두 번 하지 않습니다. 나는 통조림을 사용하고 생으로 만들고 혼합물을 사용하고 모든 종류의 재료를 사용합니다. 그들은 항상 그것을 좋아하지는 않지만 우리 집에서는 거친 사랑을 연습합니다. 그것이 당신의 저녁 식사입니다. 그리고 저녁을 먹지 않으려면 정말 배가 고플 것입니다. 그리고 아침 식사로 그들이 먹는 것을 추측하십시오. 사람들은 항상 “맙소사, 안 먹었어요”라고 놀라곤 합니다. 그들은 밤새 굶지 않을 것입니다. 퇴근 시간과 귀가 시간 사이에 쇠약해지지는 않을 것입니다. 늦게까지 일하더라도 음식 알레르기를 예방하는 또 다른 방법은 음식을 항상 밖에 두지 않는 것입니다. 고양이의 위장관은 많이 먹고 쉬도록 설계되었습니다. 그래서 음식을 먹으면 마치 마른 음식을 남기거나 어떤 음식을 놔두고 하루 종일 갉아먹을 수 있는 것처럼 자연적인 휴식 시간이 생기지 않습니다. 그리고 그것이 진짜 문제라고 생각합니다.Jenny :확인. 그래서 저희 집처럼 하루에 습식사료 3캔 정도 주고 아침에 반은 먹게 하고 다 먹을 때까지 그냥 두었다가 다 먹으면 캔 하나 더 줍니다. 잘못된 접근인가요?Dr. 호프: If you have a cat that’s allergic, that’s truly allergic, that probably is not a good approach. I would leave the food out for an hour, and pick it up. I’m lucky I work from home, so if they come back an hour later and they’re bugging me, then I can put it back out. And I cheat too. Sometimes I leave it out overnight. This morning it was completely finished and for some reason that was a good combination for them. But they get all kinds of combinations and not everything is a big hit. I don’t like everything on the menu of any restaurant either.But I wish people could relax about feeding their cats because most of us are on a schedule so it’s easy to put the cats on a schedule. But I find that my cats eat more at certain times a year. They eat more in certain weather. And it’s almost like they eat meat, meat, meat. Every day they eat every scrap immediately. And then after a week they won’t eat for a day. 그거 짜증나네. I miss my dog because I hate throwing away all that cat food.But it is a natural variation and we shouldn’t expect our cats to eat the same thing every day at the same time. That is not how a cat is designed to operate. If your cat didn’t eat real good this morning, well maybe offer him something different in the evening and try the first food tomorrow. Experiment. My cats eat much better after dark.Jenny :Yes. Well, I was going to say that because one of my cats eats very well in the morning and the other one could care less about food in the morning but likes to eat at night.Dr. Hofve: If you can you can put food out for an hour in the morning and an hour when you get home from work or school, whatever your schedule is, and then an hour before bed. And they’ll figure that out pretty quick that they better eat the food when it’s there. And that’s a better way to feed a cat. They normally would eat a number of small meals throughout the day, but they wouldn’t nibble, they wouldn’t graze all day. They would catch two or three mice, go sleep for a few hours, get hungry, go catch a couple of grasshoppers.They would not be on a fixed schedule every day or eating the same type of food every day or eating in the same pattern every day. I think we put such expectations on cats, I think it stresses them, and stress is going to create more problems than you’ve got already. It’s great to have a schedule because it’s easy for you to remember. But your cat is not necessarily going to abide by that so just don’t freak out if he doesn’t eat one meal.If I ate a big lunch, maybe I’m not going to eat dinner. Or if it’s just too hot or too windy, or unbeknownst to me there was construction by me all day, their appetite is going to change. I think trying to create these artificial situations is also a contributor to allergies and intolerances, probably more to intolerances. I’m still working on that cat poop book, I’m going to say all of that in there.Jenny :Ok good. That is definitely a book that is needed, especially why cats poop outside of the litter box but pee inside of it. Man, I get that all the time.Dr. Hofve: I know it, I know it. It’s usually, what do they say in computers, operator error.Jenny :Yes. Well that’s the hard thing too, when somebody emails you that, you’re like well can I transport myself into your basement, into your laundry room, then maybe I can tell you. But I have no idea without asking you a billion questions.Dr. Hofve: 예. My partner Jackson Galaxy makes a lot of money doing that.Jenny :Yes.Dr. Hofve: Take video of the whole house, because you have to see the situation. There’s just so many things that we’re all stressed out about and our cats are great shielders and they take on that stuff for us and their kind of species’ weak points are skin and urinary tract, and they hold stress in those places. You get a lot of physical problems from that. We’re a little far off field now.Jenny :Yes. Sorry, but you’re making me think that I want to have a cat resource site link to all this kind of stuff. So I appreciate that.Dr. Hofve: LittleBigCat has a lot of that stuff because whenever I hear the same question five times I write an article about it. So then I don’t have to remember what I said before.Jenny :Well that’s good. I will look at that. I never feel comfortable because I haven’t been professional trained to write those kind of articles so that’s why I’d like to have the resource links instead.Dr. Hofve: There’s plenty. Jackson Galaxy’s site is very good too. He’s got a lot of do it yourself home behaviorist tips.Jenny :Ok good. So what’s the worst case of food allergies or food intolerance that you’ve seen in a cat?Dr. Hofve: I actually had a couple of these. They’re both tortoise shell cats as a matter of fact and they got itchy around their head and neck. And we got most of it cleared up but between their should blade, kind of the back, there was about a 4-inch square patch of skin that they had gone after so horribly that it was scarred, it was weepy, it was bloody, it was thickened, it was absolutely horrible. It was like you took a piece of charred meat and sewed it on to them. It was just awful.Because the skin was so thickened, no internal treatment was going to get to the outside and of course if you put something on it they were just going to rub and scratch and get it off. What we ended up doing for both of those kitties, Vivian was the first one. She was so cute. But she was a stray. We had a cat clinic and of course everybody that finds a cat, “Oh, let’s take them to the cat clinic.” Poor Vivian, but we actually did surgery and removed that entire patch of skin. Because there was nothing else to do.We just cut the whole thing out, and of course cats have a lot of loose skin in that area. Made a beautiful incision and it healed. But it was so awful that we were never going to get control of it. There was no way to medicate it; there was no way to reach it from the blood stream effectively because it was just such a mess. It was almost like a tumor, like somebody ironed a tumor onto the back of her neck. It was just terrible. And I ran into another one a few years later and had to do the same thing.Jenny :Gosh, that sounds miserable. I had a small bout of eczema and I think that’s nothing compared to that description [gasp].Dr. Hofve: You feel so awful for them. They’re just miserable. Cats will tear themselves limb from limb, and there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. I know vets have tried to put little booties on them or tape up their feet or tape baby socks onto their back feet, keep the back claws trimmed and all that, but you know what, they’ll just throw themselves upside down on a rug. It’s so itchy, it’s so itchy, and you know if you have an itch like that you are going to find a way to scratch it. You’re going to find a wall or something to rub it on. It’s really awful.So when you see the first sign of itching of any kind, get on it because it could go downhill so fast. It’s bad. So let me talk about the conventional treatments for food allergies which of course is steroids. Cats are relatively resistant to the side effects of steroids but you don’t want to condemn a cat to a lifetime of steroids. I’m treating one kitty now, and he’s 20 years old. He’s so arthritic he can hardly walk, but he’s so happy. He’s bright and alert and he watches what’s going on.I spend a lot of time with him and he is not ready to go. We’re now talking about maybe we should do some steroids for his discomfort because he’s 20. We’re not going to ever see the long term side effects. We’re in a hospice situation and in that case anything goes. And I don’t mind if you have a cat that’s in severe, severe discomfort and really stressed out, so itchy that they’re tearing themselves up, yes absolutely give them steroids, short course just to get them comfortable.But you’ve got to work on the underlying cause. There’s another technique called hyposensitivization, works better in dogs of course. But if you know what the allergens are you make them up in little injections and give a teeny tiny amount. It’s very similar to the idea of homeopathy. So homeopathy can be very helpful. Certainly if you have a cat with food allergies we’re getting them off the dry food, right, because that’s a big problem.I remember reading a case that was fascinating. It was published in a journal by a vet that was scientifically oriented. I was so excited. They had put a food allergic cat on a hypoallergenic dry food, with a famous medical prescription kind of food. And she did not respond to that food, it didn’t do her any good at all. So some brilliant person thought why don’t we try the canned version of that. Symptoms disappeared.So dry food and canned food ingredients are very, very different and the dry foods, they don’t work for hardly anything in my opinion. They don’t work for urinary tract stuff, they don’t work for allergies, they don’t work for liver or any of that. The way to treat animals is to feed them what is healthy for them, not what some company has decided they can make a lot of money by marketing it. Personal prejudice there.Jenny :No. No. I understand. I just had a lady tell me yesterday that her cat’s in renal failure and she’s giving him prescription dry food, and I’m like oh, no. And it doesn’t matter what I say, like I would suggest you look into that because it’s going to take the kidneys longer to process that, the vet has convinced them that it’s the right thing to do.Dr. Hofve: Well, the vet would be wrong. But, the vet would have been trained to say that. That’s how it is. Now I do have a pretty extensive article on kidney failure on LittleBigCat.com and I discuss the whole protein thing. Lisa Pierson, her new food charts, you can sort it by phosphorous content, so you can pick the lowest phosphorous commercial foods. Kidney cats, no dry food. It’s horrible because it’s dehydrating to begin with. And dehydration is what kills these guys.Jenny :Interesting. That makes me want to go check that out. Cool. Ok, two things I’ve thought about while you were talking. Have you ever tried using aloe vera just as a topical remedy for relief or no?Dr. Hofve: I do not use aloe vera because it contains latex and personally I’m allergic to latex, I can’t use aloe vera, and that’s a prejudice that I have. If you put something topical on an itchy cat, they are going to scratch twice as much to get it off. Especially something as water soluble like that, when it dries out it dries the skin and makes it even more itchy. It’s really tough to treat these things topically unless it’s a really small focal area that you can get something on that the cat can’t get it off. But topical treatments, not very rewarding for food allergies. You’ve got to get to the food. That’s got to heal from the inside.Jenny :I was just thinking more of immediate relief, like dry skin you put lotion on. My mom had a dog that had success with aloe vera but not because of food allergies. He has degenerative disc disease so he drags his heals a lot so they get sore and bloody but she puts socks on him so he can’t even lick off the aloe vera, but it really does help him. And we literally open up an aloe vera leaf and rub it on there and it’s like completely healed in a day. It’s amazing.Dr. Hofve: That’s a whole different situation because that’s a physical abrasion, and what you want to do with a wound like that is to dry it out. So aloe would be good for that. I avoid putting topical stuff on cats. There are not very many places on their body that they can’t ingest. They can get it on their feet and ingest it. Cats are so sensitive to so many drugs, even topical stuff. One thing that can help, and I hesitate to recommend it for cats because I know that people like their fingers and their faces attached to them, but bathing them frequently.If you’ve got an oozy kind of damp rashy thing, it can be very helpful, you can use something like Aveeno oatmeal bath, and that is moisturizing and that can help, but I don’t like to leave anything on the skin because then you’re just sealing bacteria in. My mother was a great one for letting wounds air out, and I haven’t found very many things that my mother was wrong about.Jenny :Yes. My mom was all about that too, especially at night time when you were going to bed, you’d take off your bandages.Dr. Hofve: 정확히. We healed up real good.Jenny :Yes we did. Ok, so then the other thing that I was thinking of when you were talking was I know that you have had success before with the animal communicators. What about animal communicators helping with food allergies or food intolerances?Dr. Hofve: You can try, but the cat won’t necessarily know what he’s allergic to.Jenny :Ok.Dr. Hofve: They don’t know what the ingredients are in the cat food. I do have a couple of supplements that are helpful. Probiotics have proven helpful in kits and there’s quite a bit of research on that. Digestive enzymes are a must because if what we are dealing with is an allergy to a protein, if we can break that protein down into its component amino acids before it gets to the blood stream, then there’s nothing for the immune system to react to.So I’m a big fan of digestive enzymes. You can try for diarrhea type situations slippery elm or marshmallow root can be helpful. You mix those with the food and they kind of coat the GI tract. Now there’s a school of thought about will it prevent nutrients from being absorbed. And yes, it does to some extent. But you can also make a slurry with cold water, make it gooey and give it to the cat between meals, like an hour after eating, to coat the GI tract and soothe it after the food has passed through.Antioxidants and omega three fatty acids are important because they’re anti-inflammatory. And if you’re worried about the cat is having so much diarrhea that you’re worried about nutritional support, I like blue-green algae for that.Jenny : Ok. Do you have, and I’d be happy to link to this in the interview when it’s on the site, but do you have a source of where you typically like to buy those ingredients or supplements?Dr. Hofve: 네 저도 그렇습니다. I have links in my article on Food Allergies in Cats.Jenny :Ok.Dr. Hofve: And I’ll make sure that those are all up and running.Jenny: 확인. Well then I will just link to the Food Allergies in Cats and everyone can access it there.Dr. Hofve: 예. And there are links to links to links that explain all these things, what they’re good for and all that. I would also say while we’re changing diets and stuff, raw foods, raw diets are going to be one of the best things, especially for the kitties with skin issues. Now if you have a cat with an inflamed digestive tract, that has a food allergy that’s manifesting in the GI tract, I would not go to raw first.You can get raw food or home make the food, but cook the meat because when there’s inflammation, the cells are already compromised and bacteria can get into the system much easier. So you want to get the inflammation under control before we start putting in a lot of bacteria, because raw meat is all covered with bacteria. All dry food is covered with bacteria too, so it’s tough. Sometimes I go to the store and I read the labels on every food and I walk out because nothing works. It’s very frustration.Jenny :It is beyond frustrating.Dr. Hofve: But a homemade diet where you’re controlling the ingredients and you’re controlling the amount of heat how long it’s cooked and you’re controlling every supplement that goes in, that you’re controlling for all the variables and you can make sure that it’s as pure as the driven snow and no pet food company is going to do that like you can do it.Jenny: 오른쪽. 예. If I can just get my cats to eat what I’ve made.Dr. Hofve: Like we were talking earlier, the article on Switching Foods, every trick in the book. I’ve had people write in and say I tried this and it worked and I add it to the list. Lisa Pierson knew a couple of tricks I didn’t know, I added them to the list. 어렵다. Cats are hard. They’re stubborn. If you’re getting a kitten or you’ve got a young cat, food preferences are developed in kitten hood. My cats all were given raw food, canned food, scrambled eggs, everything from the time they were young kittens so that they wouldn’t be fussy. And they really are very open to new things.Like I said, they don’t ever get the same thing twice in a row and I’ve never had any kind of problem with allergies and I don’t expect to. If you get stung by a bee, the first time you get stung by a bee is usually not a problem. It’s the second time, after your immune system has been primed, it’s the second that you get these life threatening reactions. That’s how the immune system works. There are a few things like poison oak that the very first time you come across it you are going to react.But mostly, allergies develop to things that you have had or you have been exposed to that have been around your environment and for some reason, maybe due to vaccination hyping up the immune system, maybe due to some genetics, but it helps to know a little bit about the immune system so you can treat it good and try to avoid the types of situations where you’re going to be at higher risk for forming allergies.Jenny :Yes.Dr. Hofve: Easier said than done, I know.Jenny :Yes. If you could wave your magic wand that would be awesome.Dr. Hofve: 예. There are a few things I’d take care of.Jenny :Me too. Ok, so have you ever heard of NAET?Dr. Hofve: N-A-E-T?Jenny :Yes.Dr. Hofve: 예. The woman’s name that the “N” stands for is an Indian name, but her first name is Debbie. But it’s her allergy elimination technique. And there is a website, VetNAET.com where you can find a practitioner. And that is specifically for allergies and I have found it works really really well. It’s a fairly significant commitment in terms of time and energy and money, and there’s supplements involved.It’s a little bit woo woo, but I’ve seen incredible results with it and I’d recommend one guy in particular in California who does this and he’s added some of his own little special twists to it. His name is Dr. Bert Brooks, he’s in Woodland, California, and he will work long distance with you. He asks for a sample of hair and stuff so that he can analyze them. But it’s a really interesting technique.I’ve had it done on me by several different practitioners and it has been very very helpful. I was allergic to wheat and corn and I’m not anymore which is really convenient because being allergic to both is really inconvenient because they’re in everything. So yes, if you can find a practitioner or if Dr. Brooks can schedule you in, I sure do recommend that. That’s a great system.Jenny :Well good. We tried it on my mom’s dog because I actually did it in one of the many things I attempted to get rid of my thyroid disease, and so we gave it a shot. I don’t know if it didn’t work because that’s not what he needed or what, but it kind of worked. But also I think as we’ve spoken about before, I’ve gone to an acupuncturist that hasn’t done anything, and then I’ve gone to one that really knows what they’re doing and done awesome, so that’s really cool that Dr. Brooks can do it from anywhere.Dr. Hofve: 예. I lived in Sacramento for a couple of years so I visited him a few times, and I remember standing in his clinic and he uses his wife Melissa as the surrogate so he can get that direct energetic connection, so he had the phone in his hand and he was connected to a guy in New York who was on the phone with a guy in Israel who had his hand on the dog. It’s really interesting stuff. And it does sound very weird but there’s some actually good science behind it and it does derive from acupuncture which of course had several thousand years of science behind it.Yes. Worth a try for these really rare cases. Because I know sometimes nothing seems to work, even hypoallergenic diet, it’s not necessarily a cure all. And it’s very difficult to do. If you can use this, like I said it’s a very significant commitment. It’s not an easy thing to do. If it’s a choice between doing that or taking your cat to the veterinary teaching hospital for every test known to man, I would choose A.Jenny :Yes. 저도 요. Less invasive, less trips back and forth. So yes, absolutely.Dr. Hofve :Yes. It’s less stressful for the animal. It’s really an interesting technique. I would like to hear back from your readers if they try it. It would be really interesting to get some stories.Jenny :Yes. Well I’m pleased to hear that you know about it. I wasn’t aware of vetNAET.com, so I’m going to include a link to that as well in the article.Dr. Hofve :Good. Good, because it’s a fascinating technique. It really is.Jenny:Ok, Well I think that covers what I could come up with. Is there anything more that you’d like to add?Dr. Hofve :I think we’ve pretty much covered the basics and then some.Jenny :Ok. Well thank you very much.Dr. Hofve :You’re very welcome.
