Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Dog Dry Food

Hill's Prescription Diet Derm Complete Dog Food is a complete dietetic pet food for support of skin function in case of dermatosis and excessive loss of hair and for reduction of ingredient and nutrient intolerances in adult dogs. This food contains high levels of linoleic acid (LA) and of a sum of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) as well as a selected and limited number of protein and carbohydrate sources. It provides all the nutrition your dog needs and can be used long-term. This dry food is made with delicious ingredients and has an irresistible taste that dogs love. Made with 100% cage-free eggs or egg derivatives.

Note: a veterinary diet; seek your veterinarian's advice before use. Transition gradually over 7 days.

Benefits

• Limited ingredients: limited ingredient nutrition with a single intact novel animal protein.
• Histaguard Complex: a proprietary complex of bioactives and phytonutrients.
• Essential fatty acids: high levels of essential fatty acids.
• Skin barrier: helps strengthen the skin barrier.
• Food sensitivities: helps avoid adverse food reactions.
• Environmental allergies: nutrition shown to dampen the immune system's reaction to environmental allergens.
• Scratching and skin healing: helps manage scratching and other signs associated with environmental allergies and promotes skin healing.
• S+OXSHIELD: formulated to promote a urinary environment that reduces the risk of developing struvite and calcium oxalate crystals.
• Made in the USA: with global ingredients you can trust.

How to use

• Feed only this food. Daily amount by dog's weight:
• 2.5 kg → 60 g, 5 kg → 100 g, 10 kg → 170 g.
• 20 kg → 285 g, 30 kg → 385 g, 40 kg → 480 g.
• 50 kg and over → 10 g per kg of body weight.
• Adjust the amount to maintain optimum weight; the amount may be divided into 2 or more meals a day.
• Recommended time of use: support of skin function in case of dermatosis and excessive loss of hair: initially up to 2 months; reduction of ingredient and nutrient intolerances: 3 to 8 weeks; if signs of intolerance disappear, this food can be used initially up to one year.
• It is recommended that a veterinarian's opinion be sought before use or before extending the period of use.
• Transition: mix increasing amounts of the new food with decreasing amounts of the old food over 7 days.
• Fresh water should be available at all times.

Composition

Cereals, oils and fats (fish oil 1.8%), eggs and egg derivatives, meat and animal derivatives, vegetable protein extracts, seeds, minerals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables, fruit. Carbohydrate sources: broken rice, brown rice. Protein sources: dried whole eggs, rice protein.

Analytical constituents

• Protein: 16.9%
• Fat content: 15.2%
• Crude fibre: 1.4%
• Crude ash: 5.4%
• EPA + DHA: 0.52%
• Linoleic acid: 3.5%
• Omega-3 fatty acids: 1.7%
• Calcium: 0.68%, Phosphorus: 0.57%, Sodium: 0.31%, Potassium: 0.84%, Magnesium: 0.09%
• Per kg: Vitamin A 8,211 IU, Vitamin D3 693 IU, Vitamin E 800 mg, Vitamin C 100 mg, Beta-carotene 1.5 mg
• Metabolisable energy: 3756 kcal/kg

Nutritional additives (per kg)

Iron 77.5 mg, Iodine 1.9 mg, Copper 7.6 mg, Manganese 8.0 mg, Zinc 136 mg, Selenium 0.2 mg. With natural antioxidant.

Available sizes: 1.5 kg · 12 kg