Bird safe saline solution

[Smokey090]

A little soap got into my cockatiel’s eye. Anyone used saline solution to flush out irritants from bird’s eye before? If so what brand would u recommend

 

[Jcas]

I always have contact solution ( basically like saline) on hand so I use that for flushing eyes when necessary and it works well. Any brand should be ok. Just be careful not to get it in his nose! ( it has a tendency to run down the beak and sometimes get in the nostrils). Hope your Cockatiel is ok ❤️

 

[hiriki]

I would avoid contact solution since it's not always just saline, sometimes it has cleaning solution mixed it. If you read the label you're probably fine, but I personally would look for something labeled to be actually used on people, rather than something labeled to put contacts in.

You can buy saline eye drops or saline nasal spray and use that. Just make sure it's saline and not medicated. The brand doesn't really matter, saline is saline, but you do want to avoid anything medicated. Alternatively, you can actually make saline... just mix salt and water, microwave, let cool.