Hello everybody!
My 10 years old budgie, Pippi, hasn't been well lately. After a fecal smear, my vet has found an overgrowth of bacteria in his GI track and we started a round of Enrofloxacin and Nystatin to prevent fungal growth. The antibiotic made him miserable and nauseous, he lost a ton of weight and got diarrhea from it. However the nausea didn't seem to subside even after I was done with the medicines, and my vet suggested to put some unfiltered ACV in his water - 1ml in 100ml of water.
I already used to put 4-5 drops of vinegar in my budgies' water daily because my other boy has PDD and the vet mentioned it could help with emptying the crop and preventing bacterial growth. I thought 1ml was way too much (it's about 17 drops!), but I tried anyway. After 3 days, Pippi seems a bit better - he's not nauseous anymore and the diarrhea stopped. However, when I asked my vet how long should I keep putting the ACV in his water, she said it's a lifetime thing.
I've been seeing this vet for years and she has always been amazing with diagnoses and therapies for my birds, she has budgies herself too. But I'm wondering if that much ACV daily could be harmful, especially to my PDD budgie that already has a sensitive crop because of his illness. I also wondered if she meant 0,1ml (that would be about 2-3 drops), but when I asked about it she seemed adamant about it being 1ml instead. Has anybody else had their vet suggest something similar?
My 10 years old budgie, Pippi, hasn't been well lately. After a fecal smear, my vet has found an overgrowth of bacteria in his GI track and we started a round of Enrofloxacin and Nystatin to prevent fungal growth. The antibiotic made him miserable and nauseous, he lost a ton of weight and got diarrhea from it. However the nausea didn't seem to subside even after I was done with the medicines, and my vet suggested to put some unfiltered ACV in his water - 1ml in 100ml of water.
I already used to put 4-5 drops of vinegar in my budgies' water daily because my other boy has PDD and the vet mentioned it could help with emptying the crop and preventing bacterial growth. I thought 1ml was way too much (it's about 17 drops!), but I tried anyway. After 3 days, Pippi seems a bit better - he's not nauseous anymore and the diarrhea stopped. However, when I asked my vet how long should I keep putting the ACV in his water, she said it's a lifetime thing.
I've been seeing this vet for years and she has always been amazing with diagnoses and therapies for my birds, she has budgies herself too. But I'm wondering if that much ACV daily could be harmful, especially to my PDD budgie that already has a sensitive crop because of his illness. I also wondered if she meant 0,1ml (that would be about 2-3 drops), but when I asked about it she seemed adamant about it being 1ml instead. Has anybody else had their vet suggest something similar?