african grey parrot with airbag infection

Dec 12, 2011

african grey parrot with airbag infection
by: Linda

Your bird is still very sick. Antibiotics in the water are very poor medication because they are watered down too much, so the meds have been ineffective for your bird.

Also, you must take him to an Avian Vet only because dog and cat vets are not licensed or trained to diagnose and treat birds and sometimes kill them with wrong meds and too much or too little of them.

So, you will need to Find an Avian Vet and take your bird in for real treatment with the proper antibiotics in the proper dosages.

Your bird has an upper respiratory infection, and the air bags you speak of are called lungs. Please get him to an Avian Vet before he dies because that is what is happening as we sit here and speak of it. If the vet you took him to is an Avian Vet, then you'll need to find a competant one to treat your bird. Meds for an infection that has gone on this long have to be given with either a dropper provided by the avian vet and/or injections which a competant avian vet can show you how to do safely. You will need a second person to hold the bird while either the drops or injections are given because you cannot do this alone. If he stops eating, you'll also have to handfeed him baby parrot handfeeding formula found here to make sure he's eating and staying hydrated. This is best done with a syringe or a spoon that has the edges bent up making a funnel.

Please get him to a competant avian vet as soon as you can get him there because he's losing ground every moment spent waiting. He may also get a fungal infection from the antibiotics which will be treated later with antifungals, so take care of the infection first and then have him checked again once meds are done for overgrowth of yeast. This can be done with a throat swab or anal swab as the fungal growth will show up in both places. Right now, get him to an avian vet only and a competant one at that. When these infections are left to grow like this, they become life threatening as any upper respiratory infection will even in humans.

Let us know how everything is going and make sure he's given the right meds for the infection using the correct methods. This is very serious, and every minute you wait is risking his life, please understand this completely.

Linda

african grey parrot with airbag infection

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african grey parrot with airbag infection

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