1. Puppy foods contain up to 15 different ingredients. Many of which may be contaminates, toxins and indigestible materials from poor quality ingredients. It is this sudden onslaught of new foods that causes oral tolerance not to be established. The body simply cannot adjust to so many new foods fed simultaneously.
2. These poor quality ingredients pass through the intestinal mucosa and are attacked by the immune system as invaders. This is when the body sets up an allergic reaction to this type of food. This material is generally protein; therefore the dog becomes allergic to meat or other proteins.
3. Oral tolerance is not established and the dog is now allergic to many components of the food. The digestive system did not have time to establish the proper bacteria to handle the food and the immune system is now attacking food as an invading substance. This does not happen overnight. Often a puppy or dog will eat a food for months or even years and will seem to be OK. However, during this time there is much going on inside the body that manifests no outward symptoms. It is usually a vaccine or other stressor (some other disease of injury) that will tip the scales to a severe reaction. (The immune system gets overloaded)
4. The liver (whose function is to filter toxins) and immune system are designed to eject toxins and metabolic wastes outward to the skin. The skin is your dog’s largest excretory organ. In a sense this is good. A dog will always force a problem to the least critical organ system- in this case the skin. This is to protect the vital systems internally - the liver, kidneys, pancreas, etc. This is the danger of using steroids. These drugs suppress the symptoms. The 'problem' is forced back into the body (the worse thing that you want to do) and the dog will develop a more sinister problem as now these toxins are back inside the body. They will accumulate in an internal organ system and serious disease will follow.
So, in a sense your dog’s skin rash is normal and it is good that it is localized in the skin. What can you do?

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