 Endless Itching
I have not been on the forum for over a year because I went to school to learn hair mineral analysis and nutrition for dogs. I started my own company and tested over 100 dogs. All have the same problem - a deficiency of a mineral that is not supposed to be possible . . . manganese. Without adequate manganese, iron gets "stuck" in cells. Iron is always supposed to be moving. It especially goes into WBC's. So where there is inflammation, the white blood cells go and there goes more iron. The dogs itch, and out comes the iron specks, but the itching causes more inflammation and more iron keeps coming!
Commercial dog food causes this problem by putting too much phosphorus and zinc in the mix. Manganese is a very trace mineral and doesn't compete well with others. So the dogs get deficient.
And like many people know, when you stop using commercial dog food and feed a home cooked diet - the dogs improve lots. |