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About 3 years ago, my sister recommended to me that I give my cat raw chicken liver. I thought it would be a treat for him, something new. He foamed at the mouth and did a variety of weird things and I freaked out and didnt know what was happening, only to look online and find out that allergy to chicken liver is common.
So, fast forward to just last month, my cat had a struvite stone in his bladder and he was placed on Prescription Diet c/d, which dissolves struvite stones, but it has a lot of chicken in it. And in less than 2 weeks, he had scratched his eyeball. Neither the vet nor I associated his eye scratch with a possible food allergy. (His eye is healed now). Sure enough, at the second week of eating I noticed he kept wanting me to scratch his neck- which he never wanted scratched before - and he is 8 years old. By the third week I noticed he sneezed a couple of times and I caught him trying to scratch his face. At the fourth week I noticed a new sore above his other eye!
Finally, I brought him back to see the vet for his bladder ultrasound (the struvite had dissolved) and I said, I believe he has an allergy to this food. Obviously I cant keep him on anything that might make him scratch his eye again.
Then she recommended another food- Science Diet canned food. When I got home, I looked at the ingredients. It comes in 3 flavors- chicken, turkey, beef. But every can contains 'chicken liver flavor' in it. I am going to have to tell her that I believe it could be a chicken allergy. I didn't really think that being allergic to a small chunk of chicken liver was the SAME as being allergic to 'chicken liver flavor', but it might be. Anyone else know? Sometimes 'flavor' is just a flavor, and not the real thing? > :?
So, fast forward to just last month, my cat had a struvite stone in his bladder and he was placed on Prescription Diet c/d, which dissolves struvite stones, but it has a lot of chicken in it. And in less than 2 weeks, he had scratched his eyeball. Neither the vet nor I associated his eye scratch with a possible food allergy. (His eye is healed now). Sure enough, at the second week of eating I noticed he kept wanting me to scratch his neck- which he never wanted scratched before - and he is 8 years old. By the third week I noticed he sneezed a couple of times and I caught him trying to scratch his face. At the fourth week I noticed a new sore above his other eye!
Finally, I brought him back to see the vet for his bladder ultrasound (the struvite had dissolved) and I said, I believe he has an allergy to this food. Obviously I cant keep him on anything that might make him scratch his eye again.
Then she recommended another food- Science Diet canned food. When I got home, I looked at the ingredients. It comes in 3 flavors- chicken, turkey, beef. But every can contains 'chicken liver flavor' in it. I am going to have to tell her that I believe it could be a chicken allergy. I didn't really think that being allergic to a small chunk of chicken liver was the SAME as being allergic to 'chicken liver flavor', but it might be. Anyone else know? Sometimes 'flavor' is just a flavor, and not the real thing? > :?
Feed your cat a non-chicken food if you believe that will help. Stick with a new food for at least a few weeks to see if the current symptoms resolve and new ones don't show up.
