Golden Retriever Forum:
allergies

I have a three and a half yr old golden retriever who has seasonal allergies. I have been giving her 25 mg Benadryl 3 times a day. She still scratches so far no hot spots. She is 65 lbs and would like to know if I could give her one more 25 mg a day. Or any info on what you suggest. She had to be put on pregnoson last yr. do to hot spots and I would like to avoid that if possible.

Personally I beleive that this wouldn't be too good for her if you are doing it everyday. You could try and find out what it is exactly with muscle testing, and then I think there are ways to get it so that it doesn't bother her anymore...this is something that a holistic vet would probably do... GoldenPup

Our 5 year old male golden was having the same type of problems mainly in the summer. We finally figured out that it was the flea medication for preventitive any of them caused him to scratch constantly and develop hot spots we quit using flea collars and the drops that go o the neck and he has not had a problem in 2 years.