Sensitive Skin Dog Food

Although not essential, a grain-free diet can provide many benefits for dogs with sensitive tummies or allergies. A grain free diet has been known to support with easier digestion, improved skin health, energy levels and weight management. In our blog: Grain Free vs Wholegrain Dog Food: What's best for my dog? We've outlined all of the reasons why you might consider a grain-free diet. Our range of grain free dog food options are wholefood based, containing only high-quality ingredients, which is also an important factor when considering your dogs diet.

Yes! Just like humans, dogs can have sensitivities to certain ingredients that they consume through their diet. Although Forthglade don't produce allergen-free recipes, we manufacture all of our recipes using high-quality ingredients and do not add any junk or fillers to our recipes. Having a diet rich in wholefoods and hypoallergenic ingredients can help to support dogs with itchy skin. You can shop our range of hypoallergenic dog food and treats all of which has been approved by our expert vet Dr James Greenwood.

For a food to be truly hypoallergenic for your dog, it’s important to understand what their intolerance is. A product may be labelled as hypoallergenic but if it contains ingredients your dog is sensitive to, they may still experience an adverse reaction. For this reason, we ensure all our ingredients are clearly labelled including proteins e.g. if it states chicken on the front, this will be the only protein in the recipe.

Some ingredients in certain dog food like wheat, beef, or dairy, are known to trigger allergic reactions or food sensitivities. Although the only way to know if your dog has a food allergy is through an elimination diet, there are some ingredients that we'd suggest starting with to help manage your dogs in the meantime. This includes hypoallergenic approved ingredients like fish, duck or venison. This is often recommended to include just single protein sources and alongside easily digestible carbs like sweet potato.

We've written this helpful blog to support with what to feed dogs with itchy skin and our customer care team are on hand to support with any questions you might have here.

All of our wet recipes are hypoallergenic. This means we carefully select our ingredients to ensure that our recipes are of the best quality for your four legged friend. We use simple, quality ingredients with no junk or nasties. This means delicious and nutritious recipes that are kind and gentle to your dogs tummy.