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- Kim
I posted a thread in the "Pionus" section a few months back asking for advice with episodes my 7 yr old Blue headed Pionus has been having. Bella will sneeze a bunch of times, vomit (not regurgiation), tail bobs with heavy breathing and then gets very lethargic. These episodes are not consistent and for quite a while they were stretched very far apart, time wise. I have taken her to my Avian Vet 3 times for the same issue only to get NO answers as to what's happening with her, the Vet has told me besides these episodes Bella is at a good weight and overall healthy. The Vet put her on Azithromycin a while back, it didn't help. She has ran a fecal to test for Chlamydia and it came back negative....I just had her back 2 days ago and she did a fecal, blood and throat swab to test for Asper (which is what I thought she had) and that came back negative. She put Bella on Doxycycline and she has been on that since Dec 5th 2x day.
The Vet suggested x-rays next...I am at a complete loss and extremely worried and feeling hopeless right now!!! :-( I called another Vet a while back and she mentioned after looking Bella over and running some tests to maybe do a sinus flush...what exactly is that??? I've also wondered if my African grey's dust is what might be causing this to happen as I know Pionus's have extra sensitive lungs??? FYI...This is NOT the Pionus wheeze...I am aware of the wheeze they do. Bella has not started to lay any eggs yet but then again I didn't get her DNA certificate or hatch certificate from the breeder as she was moving and said she would mail it to me, yep she never sent them UGH!!! I am also going to research metal poisoning and anything else I can find about Pionus's in the meantime.
Thanx for your help....Kim
The Vet suggested x-rays next...I am at a complete loss and extremely worried and feeling hopeless right now!!! :-( I called another Vet a while back and she mentioned after looking Bella over and running some tests to maybe do a sinus flush...what exactly is that??? I've also wondered if my African grey's dust is what might be causing this to happen as I know Pionus's have extra sensitive lungs??? FYI...This is NOT the Pionus wheeze...I am aware of the wheeze they do. Bella has not started to lay any eggs yet but then again I didn't get her DNA certificate or hatch certificate from the breeder as she was moving and said she would mail it to me, yep she never sent them UGH!!! I am also going to research metal poisoning and anything else I can find about Pionus's in the meantime.
Thanx for your help....Kim