5Strands Pet Food & Environmental Intolerance Test, at Home Sensitivity Test for Dogs & Cats, 412 Items Tested, Pet Health Check, Fast 5 Day Results, For All Ages and Breeds

As a white pitbull mom I need all the help finding what my dog is allergic to! I’ve heard great things about this company through an allergy group for dogs. Results come super quick and you get to see what is making your dog itchy and have gross digestive issues. We have tried it all, apoquel, cytopoint, immunotherapy, everything. He still is itchy and pink. So excited to continue eliminating the things that test shows as allergic or sensitive. It does take a few weeks for it to start helping but so amazing!! Highly recommend!

5Strands ROCKS! Every step was easy and streamlined. Received my dog’s test results sooner than I thought I would. Was surprised at some of the results and so thankful I was able to removed them from my dog’s environment and food. There were a few questions I had with the test results concerning what items were INSIGNIFICANT and what were SEVERE INTOLERANCES. My concerns were explained to me and relieved my questions perfectly. Stacy was such a help and didn’t rush me. I will be doing more tests with 5Strands when my new dog arrives. So glad I did this testing.

I ordered the pet food/enviromental test for my dog who has been suffering from chronic skin infections. The package arrived and was very easy to complete. No plucking of hair just cut or brush out some hair. The ordered arrived back to the company in 2 business days. I received an email stating the sample had been received . I called the company with a few questions about pending results. I spoke with Stacey was extremely helpful and informative and gave me her name to call if I had further questions when I receive results.

UPDATE:Turkey came back as no reaction, green coded and totally safe. So we switched her food to Turkey. Turns out she's allergic. These tests feel very randomly generated, and flat out risky and unsafe for pet well being.---Original Review---We ordered this test after our doctor confirmed a severe chicken allergy in our dog and switched her to a lamb-based diet, which quite literally saved her life.Without knowing it, feeding chicken-based foods led to an 18-month allergy flare that left my 2-year-old dog with permanent skin lesions and was threatening to make her go deaf from constant ear infections. She literally smelled like she was dying, and we were talking palliative care with our vet, who suggested an elimination diet as a last ditch attempt to figure out our dog's allergy. When we did the elimination diet and moved her to a lamb based diet, EVERY SINGLE physical symptom cleared up in about 72 hours of being off chicken.We ordered this test because we wanted to scan for a suspected salmon intolerance and anything else we might have missed during her elimination diet. So we went in aware of a severe chicken allergy/intolerance, and knowing that lamb was safe.So imagine our surprise to get our results where lamb flags as a worst of the worst intolerance - even more than the chicken that was killing her. If we were to put faith in these test results and didn't have the advanced knowledge going into the testing, we well may have taken her off the lamb food that has saved her life and moved her back to the chicken-based food that was killing her.Our test results are also unlikely to be true based on statistical probabilities. Our kit returned58 level 3 intolerances64 level 2 intolerances67 level one intolerancesThat leaves 191 things that she didn't respond to. That means she had some form of intolerance to almost exactly 50% of things they tested for.This split would not be realistic as a natural occurrence. We should expect to see significantly more non-issue and level one intolerance than level 2 and 3 intolerances. This adds to the distrust of the results.Upon closer review of the flagged allergies and their severities on our report, we noticed that anything actually in her diet flagged as intolerant on some level. The ONLY things on this test that didn't flag were food items that just don't exist in her diet at all. I suspect that this test only tests for food IN THE DOG'S SYSTEM as opposed to foods that will actually harm them.This makes sense, since Lamb would be the #1 thing in her diet, and it flagged as a level 3 "discontinue immediately" intolerance...when in reality it's a safe food for her. Chicken flagged as a level 2 intolerance, which makes sense since she's now been without it for nearly 8 weeks, with the exception of small amounts of chicken fat and by-product meal in her treats, but does have a SEVERE issue with chicken. So SOMETHING was in there, just not much, and it flagged as a lower intolerance than it should have.I understand that the test doesn't bill itself as 100% accurate, but this test could have actually led to harm to our pet and that is scary.Buy this for fun if you like, but please don't use this as a substitute for the spendy vet testing. Please don't make feeding and medication decisions based on this test. We feel like we wasted $150 on this test that could have been better allocated towards more advanced testing that is scientific and would have offered us true insight to our dog's unique needs. This test feels generic in nature and like it probably doesn't have anything to do with our dog at all.The pros are that it is simple to do, fast, and causes the dog no discomfort.

update: i had wrote a bad review on the accuracy of the intolerance food items. i changed the diet and my dog is doing good and no longer biting his coat off. o do recommend using the kibble tool site

5Strands has been an invaluable resource for helping my dogs with their “itchy scratchies.” We’ve taken the results, implemented elimination immediately, and then reintroduced those foods after the elimination period with great success. Highly recommend!

This has been amazing! The vet wanted thousands of dollars for allergy testing. We did this test…our English bulldog hasn’t had a breakout or reaction since! This has been a life changer! Get it!

Does as advertised. Don't know what else to say. It helped us make better choices for are Cushing's dog to help his system better since it is in poor health due to the Cushing's