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Now this is funny because my dog only has the rabies vaccine and we get her titrated and only updated when the titer is low. We don't get many other ones. Why? Well she reacts badly but our dog is a special case. Our dog has some insane levels of food allergies. Her test showed up rice. Rice. Our vet was like rice is never an allergy but that is one of the ones her testing showed. It helped us a lot because she was having diarrhea like crazy and we were told to feed her chicken and rice and it was not getting any better. We ended up putting her on hydrolyzed food ad we could find no anti alergen food that was ok. Its not surprising as besides rise she showed reactions to pretty much all meat and some other common ingredients. She does not even do well on the dry hydrolyzed food and just barely on the wet. We actually end up cooking the wet and she does pretty ok on that. She does get poop pills for her biome which is sorta back and forth. She reacts a bit to them that day but then it helps for the rest of the week (our theory is the donor dogs have something in their diet that survives digestion and she reacts a bit to it). Ok so where am I going with this. Its that in general the OP is right but there are a few folks who legitamately has a dog that has issues with it. but they went through a lot and have done tests to find out why. but just because you here about this one special needs dog does not mean the majority of the healthy dog population is fine with it. All of our other many dogs have gotten pretty much everything available and its been great. So not everyone heres something on the internet and just feel it applies to all dogs or their dog for some reason. some dogs legitametly have issues. All the same I hate that stories like this might get twisted by wierd follks who think vaccines are bad. They are great. I am happy I was born late enough in the 1900's to avoid the majority of human history where epidemics was just a regular thing. Rather than a rare occurrence that was pretty much handled in two or three years.
My dog is allergic to the rabies shot but her vet gives it to her in two doses and we load her up on benedryl before the shot. And I do the same for a few of my own vaccines due to my own allergies. The work around isn't perfect but I'm glad to have options. Some vaccines are just worth the risk.
yeah we do benedryl as well and that tends to help. We tend to use it when she has any iffy stuff like the poop pills or if she eats something off the ground.
That's the right thing to do even with your dog's situation. A few days of dog discomfort is sad to watch, but rabies is much, much worse.