crazyforfeathers
New member
- Aug 18, 2012
- 76
- 5
- Parrots
- Limbo (7 year old Dusky Conure), Prisma (4 year old Parakeet), Stormy (2 year old Parakeet)
Hi Everyone. 2 nights ago, my conure started having very watery poop, then violently vomiting water almost every hour. It was traumatizing and I felt so bad for my bird.
Took him to his a-vet the next day and was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning. His xray showed 2 small bits of metal and an enlarged gizzard I think. The gizzard was enlarged because of a toxic reaction to the metals. According to a-vet, the enlarged gizzard is keeping him from ingesting his food and water that's why he throws it up.
Blood samples were taken but I won't get the results until late this week or next week. A-vet said we'd have to start chelation asap, so he injected my bird with a chelation shot, forgot the name. He also had me take home 30 days worth of chelation oral medication to be administered twice daily. I will return to a-vet in 30 days to take new x-rays to see if the chelation succesfully binded and flushed out the metals.
My bird stopped having diarrhea and has not vomited since the vet visit yesterday. His appetite has slightly improved but still 50% of what it usually is. He still seems very weak and subdued. He is fluffed up and always wants to sleep. My vet said as long as he is not vomiting anymore, to keep going. My questions are as follows:
1) I read somewhere in this forum in the past, that chelation treatment was hard or stressful on the bird. Is this true? I asked my a-vet and he said the injection treatments might be but not the oral ones.
2) Could be weak still from the toxic heavy metal poisoning? I'm just not used to him being like this.
Thank you in advance for any help and knowledge you can share.
Took him to his a-vet the next day and was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning. His xray showed 2 small bits of metal and an enlarged gizzard I think. The gizzard was enlarged because of a toxic reaction to the metals. According to a-vet, the enlarged gizzard is keeping him from ingesting his food and water that's why he throws it up.
Blood samples were taken but I won't get the results until late this week or next week. A-vet said we'd have to start chelation asap, so he injected my bird with a chelation shot, forgot the name. He also had me take home 30 days worth of chelation oral medication to be administered twice daily. I will return to a-vet in 30 days to take new x-rays to see if the chelation succesfully binded and flushed out the metals.
My bird stopped having diarrhea and has not vomited since the vet visit yesterday. His appetite has slightly improved but still 50% of what it usually is. He still seems very weak and subdued. He is fluffed up and always wants to sleep. My vet said as long as he is not vomiting anymore, to keep going. My questions are as follows:
1) I read somewhere in this forum in the past, that chelation treatment was hard or stressful on the bird. Is this true? I asked my a-vet and he said the injection treatments might be but not the oral ones.
2) Could be weak still from the toxic heavy metal poisoning? I'm just not used to him being like this.
Thank you in advance for any help and knowledge you can share.
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