Can a dog have Piriton or similar?

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My gorgeous boy has had bad skin on and off for years. By process of trial and illimination we have found a food he had great skin on.
For a long time he had a very mild steroid every morning which worked brilliantly.
The problem is rather than leave him home all day when I’m at uwork he comes with me. It’s fun for him, there’s a mini pack of dogs and a heated aga to chill infront of! But... there’s also horse food and I’m assuming he gets fed down in the yard owners house so I’m never sure what he’s eating.
So more recently at his last check up (early December) the vet said he was doing well enough to stop the steroid as it will effect his immune system.
However he’s showing signs again. I can either leave him home where I know 100% what he’s eating and his skin is fine without steroids or carry on taking him but put him back on the medication.
Or is there an alternative? Can I use antihistamine?
 
Whatever you do, run it past the vet first. My old dog was prescribed it but the vet advised me I could get it cheaper online thereafter, but gave guidance on the dosage, apologies but I can't remember how much.
I'd definitely also ask people politely to stop feeding him, as it is risking his health. Or it just could be that the steroid is starting to wear off.
It also could be something environmental, my dog was allergic to tree pollen. We lived in a heavily forested area :/
 
Yes I will, I more wondered if it was a ok idea to run past them.
It’s tough, I don’t think they actually feed him as such but he’s joined in with their dogs (which I love) and has access to their food/ their chickens get all the scraps in the garden and horses get mix so I just don’t know what he’s picking up.
Yes your right it could just be that he simply needs the steroid
 
Mine was on steroids and Piriton but I kept him on the Piriton when the steroids stopped. Hard to say if it made a difference as there was quite a lot going on with him, poor spud.
 
My dog last summer seemed to be having an allergic reaction to some kind of pollen and really chewing/scratching at paws. Vets said to give 1 normal human antihistamine crushed up in his food. Did seemed to work. Definitely not silly to ask vet, I'd definitely run it past them first!
 
I always take some Piriton with me when walking the dogs in Summer in case of an adder bite. We have had two dogs bitten in the last few years and the vet advised us to give Piriton straight away before rushing to the surgery so it must be alright. No idea how effective it is though.
 
Piriton seemed to help my GSD when he was particularly bad- again he had plenty of allergies and also good at pinching horse feed and crumbs. Can’t remeber how much. Vet agreed. He then just had steroids when he flares up at start of pollen season, not all the time.
Needed to be piriton, not piritease as that had a different made drug
 
Ours were given them at the vet after a traumatic wasp nest incident, and continued getting 1/2 tablet per 10kg for a few days after, but i'd run the amounts past a vets
 
I asked the vet about giving piriton to my 4 month old puppy who had an allergic reaction to something unknown twice in 4 days. He reckoned that dogs response to it was so poor as to not being worth it.
 
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