Obi, for those that don't know, is my own Beagle. At the start of this venture I decided to get him allergy tested to see what, if anything, came up. Obi has never displayed any sort of allergies or intolerances, so to be honest I thought the tests would show nothing interesting. But, I was wrong, and the results were actually quite surprising! 

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I ran our basic hair strand test which looks at 300 items, a mix of food and environmental. The test returns the results of the allergens that have a sensitivity level of over 85%, that's the threshold at which you would expect to see some symptoms. 

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In terms of food, Obi showed high levels of sensitivity to the following items: 

• Coriander 99%

• Crayfish 98%

• Millet 95%

• Mustard 95%

• Cream 95%

• Aubergine 95%

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Thankfully, these aren't things that we include in Obi's usual diet.

 

But there were several items that he does eat that flagged as Amber (85%-94%). These included: 

• White Bread 94%

• Lambs Liver 94%

• Spinach 94%

• Duck 91%

• Cod 90%

• Milk lactose 89%

• Honey 88%

• Carrot 87%

• Cream Cheese 85%

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We are now going to actively try and eliminate these from his diet to see if we notice any changes, and I will update in a few weeks.