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Stool Status

tameem

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Forgot to say, but I requested to rename this to "Stool Status" as I keep posting my updates about it despite that Saturday being over and move it to Healthy Highway. Seemed like it's more fitting over there.
For more context if future readers come across this, this used to be titled "Need help before going to a vet this Saturday" and it was in "Cockatiel Corner"
also we're on the next page already?
 
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tameem

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But now the two possibly concerning things were the one time the stringy stool being hung from the vent (never happened again), and the one time where the stool was very reddish-brown on camera (was also kinda stringy but not hung). I've messaged the vet about the latter with pics and vet said let the 5 days run it's course + could be the medicine, but no such stool happened again. Maybe too early to judge? I dunno.
By the way this didn't happen just once. I have noticed a pattern in the stools. Sometimes they have atleast a tiny bit of reddish-brown.
Yeah this still happens sometimes and I always passed it off as "medicine" like the clinic said.
But I'm always wondering.... could this be actually the case?
 

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Alright, during the entire thing I've noticed a pattern.
Not sure about brownish with red tint (the camera makes it look like really bad, but it doesn't look that bad IRL. Still something to consider), but one certain thing is that the stool is consistently at least a bit yellow. I was suspecting it might be the Tabernil total oral solucion medicine since it is yellow and makes the water color like so (my bird glady drinks it and doesn't suspect anything LOL).
What I've found in my research is that is it could be the medicine causing it, especially ones having high amounts of Vitamin A. At least the medications will only be for a limited time, hopefully. Wouldn't want to put my bird on unbalanced amount of vitamins forever... so I'll be skeptical and get a second opinion if the current vet asks for more time on this medication. Gosh, why didn't I just go to the vet that treated my bird's eye injury in the first place? I think I would've been more at ease. I'll find a time to message the other vet about this, and see what they think.

This page on the official website says that the Tabernil total is a vitamin supplement, so the fact that my vet also mentioned that if my bird is getting enough calcium makes me think....
And the timeframe is "during 5 consecutive days, twice a month" (10 total days in a month?)
But to fair it states "To enhance the bird's general health and during and after any infectious or parasitic disease" and "After long treatments with sulphonamides and antibiotics", though I am genuinely not sure if I would call 7 days (5 consecutive, then one day without, then 2 more days like vet asked) of gentamacina "long". I guess let's consider that it makes it a bit more than this page's recommended range of 3-5 consecutive days?

In conclusion, I'm only a bit less worried about my bird now since seeds and bubbles, maybe stringy stools too now appear at rare inconsistent times, but I am still feeling a bit so-so about my bird... :unsure1:


I wonder if the other vet still remembers me and my bird. I have went there with my sister because she scheduled a checkup for her cat at the same time too (you might guess how the eye injury happened :cautious:). She took her cat there... a lot. (yeah early death of the cat was imminent :sad5:. It was a Scottish Fold after all (Scottish Straight to be more exact but same thing just no floppy ears), so they are usually unhealthy... but it was still wayyy under expected age of 15).
The passing of my sister's cat made me look after the bird more, and pretty much right after that I think I have just caught seeds and bubbles in stool early, have never seen them before. It was a matter of time honestly as I have not taken my bird to a vet in a while.
I wonder.... why did she recommend me this vet though? Her last visit was the previous one that I mentioned... so I believe she only took her cat to my current one for grooming since I've heard they're good at that. Wonder what was her thought process... I should stop being hesitant and ask.


But I digress, enough about past cat. Let's focus on my bird for now.
 

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Hey, it has been a bit. Today marks the end of the medications, that means back to normal drinking water.
Still thinking of taking it to previous vet to conclude.
 

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Booked an appointment for the other vet. Hope it goes well. Mainly because of other concerns but I'll bring the stool situation up.
 

tameem

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Booked an appointment for the other vet. Hope it goes well. Mainly because of other concerns but I'll bring the stool situation up.
I have went to the vet on the same day of the post date I quoted and brought it up. The vet didn’t seem too concerned about it, so considering that they also seem to use Tabernil products, I think it’s pretty much problem solved… atleast for now.
For now because post-vet, I have noticed that the color changed I also caught seeds and bubbles once. Because this didn’t happen for a while, I’m willing to assume it could be the medication given in the seeds (the medication is called Plume-Plus if you wanna have a look online and see if it’s atleast fine in certain circumstances). This is getting off-topic from the stool so I have posted a separate thread here for the main concerns. Feel free to give insights and help over there. I’ll still keep anything related to the stool up-to-date here and lead people here from my other thread for anything related to my bird’s stool.
 
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