charmedbyekkie
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This morning started with Cairo passing very watery and off-colour (for his diet). I thought maybe it was because, for dinner the night before, I added French Beans into this new chop mix and added too much water to the rice. However, by the afternoon, I was quite sure something was wrong - at times, he seemed to not even have control of his, what I believed to be, diarrhoea.
I immediately booked an appointment (at the second and last avian vet in this country - separate post later for that) for the evening. Long story short (being that he hates pooing inside his carrier, so they had to give us a room):
Yeast.
I talked to the vet about his diet and how I am a poo-gazer, as we in the forum jokingly say. We went over how I prepare his food. Then she talked to me about the rice and how to properly prepare it. I had precooked his rice and kept it in the coldest part of the fridge. She said that was fine, but that when reheating, I need to absolutely make it piping hot (then let cool down to feed him) in order to kill off the yeast then stir (she also said not to heat up his veggies, so he can get all the nutrients). His digestive tract apparently started fermenting the rice yeast, causing his problems. Her tech quickly came in with the faecalysis results, which confirmed the yeast hypothesis.
So now we're home with itraconazole as well as probiotic bacillus subtilis (she recommends priobiotics as just part of his standard diet, one dosage every other day).
TL;DR
Cook your rice! And recook it when reheating!
I immediately booked an appointment (at the second and last avian vet in this country - separate post later for that) for the evening. Long story short (being that he hates pooing inside his carrier, so they had to give us a room):
Yeast.
I talked to the vet about his diet and how I am a poo-gazer, as we in the forum jokingly say. We went over how I prepare his food. Then she talked to me about the rice and how to properly prepare it. I had precooked his rice and kept it in the coldest part of the fridge. She said that was fine, but that when reheating, I need to absolutely make it piping hot (then let cool down to feed him) in order to kill off the yeast then stir (she also said not to heat up his veggies, so he can get all the nutrients). His digestive tract apparently started fermenting the rice yeast, causing his problems. Her tech quickly came in with the faecalysis results, which confirmed the yeast hypothesis.
So now we're home with itraconazole as well as probiotic bacillus subtilis (she recommends priobiotics as just part of his standard diet, one dosage every other day).
TL;DR
Cook your rice! And recook it when reheating!