Animals can also suffer the allergies just like people. They are also very susceptible to the allergies. You will find that the ways to test animals are almost the same with testing humans. When your pet suffers a certain allergy, you can test it so that you can do appropriate treatment to your pet.

In this case, you might not able to do the testing by yourself. Thus, you should take your pet to a veterinary dermatologist. This person is trained to diagnose the allergies in animals so that you will be sure that the testing is done by a correct person.

As the beginning step, you can discuss the symptoms with the vet. You will find that most allergies in pet are caused by inhalants. Other common allergies that can be suffered by animal are food allergies. The symptoms of allergies caused by inhalants usually are occurred in the on the skin. Meanwhile, the symptoms of food allergies show up in the digestion.

After the symptoms are discussed, you can have the veterinary to do a complete diagnostic. The diagnostic will make your vet is able to do the allergy tests to your pet. You will find that there are some conditions that show allergy-like symptoms.

Another test that you should do your pet is to get him/her to have an intrademal test. This type of testing is recognized as the best way to test allergies on animal. In this test, the skin of your pet will be shaved and then it will be injected by small amounts of suspected allergens. After few minutes, there will be results on the skin of your pet. There will be raised bumps on his/her skin that are hard to see with untrained eyes. Thus, should be done by the expert.

However, you can have your pet to get a RAST (radioallergosorbent) or ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) if he/she cannot have the intrademal test. This is a blood allergy that is actually not too effective to identify allergies on your pet. But, you will find that RAST or ELISA are important to do for several conditions.

After it is identified that your pet suffers a certain allergy, you must discuss the treatment. There are some allergies that can be treated by doing the medication.