Nikki
09-03-2008, 09:29 PM
I've had the scariest bird mom day today :(
This morning, Toby was a little off when I had him out playing before work, he didn't want to step up and bit me when I pressed my finger up to his chest for him to step up. I just scooped him up and put him in the cage and thought he was being a brat.... so I didn't take him with me to work today. Nothing like a cranky parrotlet who didn't get enough sleep to make your work day a bad one.
I came home around 5:30pm and I got him out to play again. He stepped right up on my hand and I noticed that there was something crusty all in his head feathers and I knew I didn't give him anything sticky with his morning food. I called my mother into the room to help me investigate and as we were checking the cage, Toby started to vomit. Like projectile vomiting of clear liquid all over my shirt. (I never knew the little guy could hold that much) Then, he did it again, three times.
I freaked out and started crying cause I just knew he was gonna die right then and there and I started yelling at mom to find the vet's card so I could call. I got the answering service and the dog vet was on call... which just stressed me out more. Then, 5 minutes later, my wonderful new bird vet called me instead of the doctor on call.... much to my relief. She asked me some questions. Had me do a few little tests with Toby to check his alertness level. He had a clear poop while I was on the phone with her which of course just freaked me out more! She calmed me down again and had me check a couple of other things and told me to keep him warm, limit his access to water to a few cc's per hour and offer him some of his food if he wanted it and to document poops and vomit and she would call me back in 2 hours.
He ate a little, and pooped with color, and drank a little. And didn't vomit at all until right before she called back. Then he vomited up the seed he had eaten undigested which led her to the conclusion that he has a crop yeast infection secondary to his antibiotics for the sinus infection.
I had to move him to a hospital cage and I have to pick up a prescription for Nystatin in the morning.
I wanted to share the background on the story in case this happened to anyone else's bird and they freaked as bad as me so you could at least have a possible cause and a possible reaction in case you couldn't get in touch with your vet for some reason.
And please pray for the little guy. I think he feels okay, but he's scared me half to death tonight.
My question is: has anyone else experienced this? and if so are there any highly palatable but easy on the crop foods that I can try to offer him until this passes?
(I hope Chapala is back <crosses fingers>)
This morning, Toby was a little off when I had him out playing before work, he didn't want to step up and bit me when I pressed my finger up to his chest for him to step up. I just scooped him up and put him in the cage and thought he was being a brat.... so I didn't take him with me to work today. Nothing like a cranky parrotlet who didn't get enough sleep to make your work day a bad one.
I came home around 5:30pm and I got him out to play again. He stepped right up on my hand and I noticed that there was something crusty all in his head feathers and I knew I didn't give him anything sticky with his morning food. I called my mother into the room to help me investigate and as we were checking the cage, Toby started to vomit. Like projectile vomiting of clear liquid all over my shirt. (I never knew the little guy could hold that much) Then, he did it again, three times.
I freaked out and started crying cause I just knew he was gonna die right then and there and I started yelling at mom to find the vet's card so I could call. I got the answering service and the dog vet was on call... which just stressed me out more. Then, 5 minutes later, my wonderful new bird vet called me instead of the doctor on call.... much to my relief. She asked me some questions. Had me do a few little tests with Toby to check his alertness level. He had a clear poop while I was on the phone with her which of course just freaked me out more! She calmed me down again and had me check a couple of other things and told me to keep him warm, limit his access to water to a few cc's per hour and offer him some of his food if he wanted it and to document poops and vomit and she would call me back in 2 hours.
He ate a little, and pooped with color, and drank a little. And didn't vomit at all until right before she called back. Then he vomited up the seed he had eaten undigested which led her to the conclusion that he has a crop yeast infection secondary to his antibiotics for the sinus infection.
I had to move him to a hospital cage and I have to pick up a prescription for Nystatin in the morning.
I wanted to share the background on the story in case this happened to anyone else's bird and they freaked as bad as me so you could at least have a possible cause and a possible reaction in case you couldn't get in touch with your vet for some reason.
And please pray for the little guy. I think he feels okay, but he's scared me half to death tonight.
My question is: has anyone else experienced this? and if so are there any highly palatable but easy on the crop foods that I can try to offer him until this passes?
(I hope Chapala is back <crosses fingers>)