My little Misty went to the vet today

[jean20057]

Well, we ended up taking Misty to the vet today, because she has been having some watery poops. But since we have been doing the construction in our kitchen we had to move the birds to a different room to essentially quarantine them from the rest of the house. I thought she may be just stressed, but we wanted to take her in anyway just to double check and make sure everything is ok. 

So we get there, and get back to see the doc, and started discussing everything that has been going on. She has had watery poops, she regurgitated 3 times while we were there, and the very felt her underside, and felt a tender spot on I think her left side. She thinks that it may either be that she may be going into estrus, or, she may have some sort of parasite. Now she also said that most all birds bought at pet stores have a small amount of parasites, but USUALLY it's nor anything to worry about. 

Since she couldn't get a good enough sample while we were there, she wants us to collect some samples of poo from everyone, but mainly Misty, and bring it in for a gram stain to see if there's any parasites in there. She did an in house check on her poo, and found 1 egg, looked around for more, went back to find it again, and couldn't. 

Anyway, she said that when the pro biotics she has on order come in, we can start them on that as a group treatment. Does anyone know of a good over the counter PB?

[jean20057]

Well, obviously no results from the fecal test yet, as it is Sunday, but I would like to put out there that she has, over a roughly 2 week period, lost about 7.5g, steadily. I'm going to call the vet today when they open, but I don't know what to do until then. I don't even know if the avian vet is going to be there today. I'm freaking out a little.

[budgiefriend]

Hope the vet has the solution to help Misty. She is much too cute to be sick. My very besy thoughts and prayers are with you and Misty.

[Shirls]

Sorry to hear you and Misty are having probs jean20057, keeping everything crossed for you all.

[OP]

Oh dear, here's hoping the best for you and Misty.

[stace]

Sorry to hear Misty is unwell.

[jean20057]

Thank you all very much for your good thoughts and prayers. We have some Harrison's adult lifetime pellets with the booster on them, and we threw that into some egg food for all of them. Also, we moved her back into our bedroom. (They were previously in the spare room with me, we're doing some construction in our kitchen due to a rotted floor in one spot and mold). So we wanted to keep them quarantined away from it all, and that room is generally kept closed, or at least it has been since we started renovations. We even fashioned a "filter" over the air vent with a pillow case to filter any harmful spores or particles. We don't take any chances now after what happened to Holly, which is a story for another day. I'm still a wreck about it, as it just happened early this past April. We're hoping that all these problems were just due to the stress of being moved into a different room, and not having daddy in with us.

[birdguhl]

I can understand why you're worried. Really hoping for some positive news about Misty's diagnosis and that she can get started on effective treatment soon.

Regarding a probiotic, the one a lot of people use is Guardian Angel. You can find out more about here: www.birdcareco.com/English/TheBirdCareCompany/ProductInformation/Guardian-Angel

[Moogie]

Hope little Misty and the rest of the gang are ok,have every thing crossed x

[Hezz]

Any news?

[jean20057]

No not yet. We should know something sometime tomorrow. Fingers crossed it's something easy to fix. We have her in our bedroom again and she seems to be doing a little better, but who knows.

[jean20057]

Fecal tests came back neg. for parasites!!! Yay!!! Now we just have to figure out an explaination for the runny poops.

[ffiscool]

glsd to hear the tests are ok, but yes, a mystery really...