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The best advice anyone on the internet can give you is to take her to the vet. It could be so many things with so many different treatments, there's just no way to guess

She might be embedded with fleas. Here on our ranch we have girl called Kimber. She has the same problem, she is always itching herself. They've (we have family living here) tried everything; flea baths everyday, that flea stuff you put on there backs, medicine even (both oral and outside), pouring flea powder all over their house, spraying, they even called in a dude to spray down the entire house for fleas. Nothing worked when it usually did. Until they took her to the vet and they found out from her x-rays she was embedded with fleas galore. After the visit she was a happy dogo for quite a few months now (5 or 6), but she might be embedded with fleas again cause she's starting to itch herself a lot again. So their probably going to have to take her back for treatment once more.

All in all, best call to make is to take her to the vet like @Natalya1917 said. All sorts of problems could come from this.

Our Jack Russell's would get really red and puffy/itchy during the fall. To the point they were making themselves bleed with all the scratching. We found out that they are allergic to ragweed. If it's not fleas, it could be a possible allergy. We got a prescription medication for our dogs but you need to see a vet for it. I highly recommend a vet to determine the cause and to get proper treatment

I have not changed her food since my oldest dog died

Although I do agree with consulting your get I just have to put my 2 cents in. I had the same thing happen to me my 3 year old pitbull started itching and losing her fur 2 winters ago vet said it was allergies to fleas and ticks to we put her on flea and tick meds. Still didn't help I kept taking her back to the vet where he would give her a 40 dollar Allergy shot that wouldn't even last a week and she was back to chewing after 2 years, many sleepless nights from licking and chewing and a few hundred dollars later I have changed her dog food even though she was already on it when she started losing her fur. Alot of dog foods contain dyes along with chicken and beef preservatives which my new vet thinks my pitbull is allergic too. I changed her over to the a Purina One Lamb and Rice 3 months ago and her hair is almost completely grown back! 3 months ago I was ready to do a full panel allergy test which where Im at is anywhere from 200 to 250 dollars. So even though she's been on the same dog food maybe try a different one :)

@Natalya1917 oh I didn't meant to not consult with the vet I was just giving suggestions I did call my vet and ask them what type of dog food would be best to change to and they told me Purina One Lamb and Rice and if it didn't make a difference in 3 months to bring her back they did say not to change to many at once since we wouldn't know what was helping if we did multiples

She’s been eating this food for a while so she’s never had issues.

I had a dog with a similar problem (vet said she was allergic to fleas) who we had to put on flea medicine.

Just on the subject of allergies, as Rutledge mentioned before, and this applies for humans also, sometimes allergens have a cumulative effect. So you or your dog can be fine with something for many years before the build up of exposure leads to any symptoms developing. For example, my mom never had a reaction to poison ivy until she was in her 50s.

Just to say, even if you haven't changed anything (and like Lena said, that may be hard to tell in itself) there's no way to eliminate these possibilities without a vet visit. Hope that made sense :) May your pup get to feeling better very soon!