What kind of food will not give my labrador retriever allergic reactions?

My yellow lab has struggled with food allergies for months and months and we cannot seem to find a solution. We've tried Science Diet, Iams Natural, Blue Buffalo (all flavors) and NOTHING seems to work. He is constantly scratching his skin and the food makes his ears itch. Please help me find a food so he doesn't have to suffer.|||Single Worker gave you an excellent answer. Atopic allergies are more of a problem than food allergies. The only real answer is to find out what the dog is allergic to. Otherwise you will be spending a lot of money without identifying the problem.|||Your dog may have environmental allergies. These include allergies to weeds, trees, grass, fungus, and stuff in your house. You need to work with your vet in determining where the allergies are coming from. If you feel that these are food allergies you need to feed a diet with only one novel protein and one novel carbohydrate. These need to be foods that your dog hasn't had much exposure to. Natural Balance makes quite a few of these diets. The other thing is you must stop any treats, flavored oral medications, rawhide and other chews, etc. You must monitor everything that goes in your dog's mouth. Remember just about anything that goes into a dog's mouth is food. Just changing from dog food to dog food will not work. You need to turn the bag over and look at the ingredients. The more ingredients in a food the more chance that there is something in the food that he's allergic to. Do not include the vitamin/mineral package in your analysis. There are blood tests that are effective in testing for environmental allergies. The food parts of these tests are not near as accurate. You need to talk further to your vet about these tests as well as an allergy test diet for your dog.|||If you've tried every flavor of a brand of dog food (Blue) that doesn't use corn, wheat, or soy at all, then he's either allergic to a very common dog food ingredient, even in higher grade foods, or the protein source itself. Chicken or beef allergies aren't all too uncommon in dogs.





I recommend researching a proper raw diet, like the raw prey model diet. I hear dogs with allergies generally stop having allergic reactions when switched to a raw diet. Alternatively, you can stick to foods that contain NO corn, wheat, or soy in any form and use a less common protein source, like duck or venison, and see if he feels better.





Note that when switching to a new food you have to feed him that same food for AT LEAST one week before you can determine if it's working or not. It can take a good week for allergy symptoms to subside.





Corn, wheat, and soy are the most common food allergies in dogs|||your vet can do allergy testing it's alittle spendy, but it could take you forever to figure out what he's allergic to instead of looking at just the different meats dogs are allergic to.look to things like wheat ,soy,ect.your vet also has a hypo alllergenic food made by Science diet it's called Z/D.it costs alot more but your dogs worth it and he might not be so miserable.good luck!