[Dailydrool] Allergy shots

[Elizabeth Lindsey]

I thought I'd better add a short addendum to what I wrote earlier  
about our late, great Jane Basset's allergy shots.

We didn't see an immediate improvement when we first started giving  
them to her. In fact, her allergy symptoms initially worsened, and we  
had to resort to a couple of days of prednisone to calm down the  
reaction. Her Purdue dermatologist told us it's quite normal for this  
to happen in the beginning because it takes several months to fine- 
tune the amounts of the allergens in the serum to each dog's  
individual body chemistry. Under his supervision, we tinkered with  
the amounts we gave Jane during her first year on the shots. After  
about six months, though, we got it all sorted out so that Jane was  
no longer reacting to the serum.

Elizabeth