The vet has been updating me via email, he is amazing. He said that her blood chemistry came back normal, and that her CBC showed elevated white blood cells with a heterophilia consistent with bacterial gastroenteritis. He wants to wait for the culture before he prescribing anything else, since the Cipro seemed to help with her throat. We thought we were clean before but now we are really gonna be even more crazy about it. We've got our spring cleaning done early this year. We don't know if it's from that yet but if there's even a small chance, we won't let it happen again. We bought her an air purifier, which has seemed to help already. Also, we use F10 veterinarian disinfectant and it's pretty amazing. Thanks again guys, I'll keep you updated.
If I remember correctly from school vet tech work, Emerald is the brand name of a company that makes "Critical Care Food Supplementation" and they divide their systems into 3 different categories: Herbivore, Carnivore, and Omnivore. So each supplementation is designed specifically for the needs of the animal based on their natural diets in the wild, birds typically being given the omnivore depending on the species and the individual issues. It's a powder that is mixed with water and is used quite often for tube feeding while animals are in the hospital, which is why you don't often see it given out for home use, usually one of the other food supplements are used for home care. But I remember one particular herp vet providing this a lot to reptile owners for home syringe feedings, and it worked very well to get weight back on and to get their appetites going. In my notes I wrote "Think of Boost or Ensure on steroids", lol..
