Use Raw Honey to Help Reduce Your Dog's Environmental Allergy, Hay Fever Symptoms

how to use raw honey to help reduce your dog's environmental allergy symptoms
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In this article:
  1. How Raw Honey Helps Reduce Environmental Allergy, Hay Fever Symptoms
  2. When to Start Dosing With Raw Honey
  3. What Type of Honey to Use
  4. How to Include Raw Honey In Your Dog's Diet
  5. Daily Dosage or Raw Honey For Your Dog
  6. Cautions for Using Honey
  7. Learn More About Raw Honey for Dogs

1. How Raw Honey Helps Reduce Environmental Allergy, Hay Fever Symptoms in Dogs

If your dog has environmental allergies (hay fever) caused by pollen, locally produced, unpasteurized raw honey can help reduce allergy symptoms. 
 
Honey contains trace amounts of pollen.
 
When raw honey is dosed daily, the trace amount of pollen (in raw honey) gently inoculates your dog's immune system to pollen. 
 
Over-time the immune system stops seeing pollen as a foreign intruder. The immune system stops attacking the pollen. Hay fever (allergy symptoms) become less intense and in some cases completely resolve.
 

2. When To Start Dosing With Raw Honey

It's important to allow time for the natural inoculation process to build-up prior to the start of hay fever (allergy) season. 
 
For maximum efficacy, dosing (honey), should start at least 6 months prior to onset-of hay fever season. 
 
You can start dosing at any time, but you'll need to be patient. If you start just before to or during allergy season, don't expect to see much to any moderation of symptoms during the first hay fever (allergy) season or part there-of. 
 

3. What Type of Honey To Use

Do Use
  1. Raw unpasteurized, pure local honey, produced by bees within a 50 mile (80 km) radius of where you live.
  2. Typically it's best to choose a wildflower honey
Don't Use
 
Processed, pasteurized, mass produced commercial honey as it is just sugar. It does not have the health benefits of locally produced natural honey. Pasteurized honey is NOT good for dogs.

 
4. How to Include Raw Honey In Your Dog's Diet
 
Select one of the following options:
 
raw honey for dogs with environmental allergies
 
Option One - Raw Honey
  1. Add the local wild flower honey to your dog’s food once a day. 
  2. Follow the daily dosage guideline provided further below.
 
Option Two - Raw Honey, Mullein and Stinging Nettle
  1. Do a herb and honey infusion with honey, mullein and nettle. 
  2. Add the infusion to your dog's food once a day.
Instructions to make the infusion, and health benefits of mullein and stinging nettle for dogs with environmental allergies:
 
5. Daily Dosage of Raw Honey For Your Dog
 
Dose According to Your Dog's Body Weight
  1. ¼ tsp for every 20 pounds (9.0 kg) of body weight.
  2. Dose daily.
  3. The daily dosage can be given at one meal or divided between 2 meals. 
 

6. Cautions for Using Honey

6.1 Puppies Under 6 months of Age
  •  Honey should not be given to puppies 6 months of age or younger.
6.2 Allergy To Honey
  •  If your dog is allergic to honey, do not give honey to your dog.
6.3 Additional Cautions and Interactions
  •  Read section '10.0 Cautions and Interactions' in this article.
 
7. Learn More About Raw Honey for Dogs
 
To learn more about the health benefits of honey for dogs:
 
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Article and graphics by Karen Rosenfeld. 
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