traveldogs
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- Dec 16, 2014
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- Phoebe: White Fronted Amazon Born:1994
Fred: Orange Winged Amazon Born:1963
Hello Everyone,
At some point I will fill in my profile and introduce myself, but right now I have a somewhat urgent situation.
I have a 51 year old Orange Wing with a chronic sinus condition. He is a rescue, who we have had only about 18 months.
He has been treated for this for almost a year.
He has been flushed several times. I've set up a humidifier with peppermint and lemon EOs that run all day.
Several times he's had episodes of bleeding from behind the sinuses...large clots coming thru underneath the sinuses and out his mouth. The last was just a little while ago. The clots come out and then it stops.
He did this a little over a week ago, and we took him back to the vet, who put him on systemic antibiotics, which he is still on. At that time his left cheek was swollen with pus....as the infection had ruptured thru. Other times his cheek was swollen...it was just air. But that was the earlier symptoms that started this whole treatment almost a year ago.
That sinus continually clogs. My husband has been cleaning it twice a day, flushing through some colloidal silver (that stuff is usually a miracle worker), and we still are getting a small amount of stuff via a syringe out of that cheek that swells up once a week or so.
We feel that perhaps after his med applications he starts sneezing and triggers the bleeding...but that's just a guess.
He's eating only organic pellets/fruits w/supplemental hemp seeds. He's also getting organic fresh frozen berries and veggies. The vet did feel that his previous owners probably had him on a crappy diet that we are now having to fight against, as well.
We're at the end of our rope. I'm beginning to wonder if he's got some kind of tumor, or head trauma we're unaware of.
He is very rickety due to arthritis, and age. We've made changes to his living environment so he can move around easier, and has less chance of falling. And the vet did suggest giving him a bit of plain aspirin mixed in with water at night to ease any pain...arthritic, or otherwise, which we have also been doing.
I would appreciate any helpful suggestions that any of you who have had old aged rescues or parrots with chronic sinus problems.
I would appreciate it if you would refrain from telling me to take him back to the vet, or to try new vets. His vet is good, and we feel he is doing the best that anyone can do. More visits are not going to help at this point.
Thank you in advance from Fred:
At some point I will fill in my profile and introduce myself, but right now I have a somewhat urgent situation.
I have a 51 year old Orange Wing with a chronic sinus condition. He is a rescue, who we have had only about 18 months.
He has been treated for this for almost a year.
He has been flushed several times. I've set up a humidifier with peppermint and lemon EOs that run all day.
Several times he's had episodes of bleeding from behind the sinuses...large clots coming thru underneath the sinuses and out his mouth. The last was just a little while ago. The clots come out and then it stops.
He did this a little over a week ago, and we took him back to the vet, who put him on systemic antibiotics, which he is still on. At that time his left cheek was swollen with pus....as the infection had ruptured thru. Other times his cheek was swollen...it was just air. But that was the earlier symptoms that started this whole treatment almost a year ago.
That sinus continually clogs. My husband has been cleaning it twice a day, flushing through some colloidal silver (that stuff is usually a miracle worker), and we still are getting a small amount of stuff via a syringe out of that cheek that swells up once a week or so.
We feel that perhaps after his med applications he starts sneezing and triggers the bleeding...but that's just a guess.
He's eating only organic pellets/fruits w/supplemental hemp seeds. He's also getting organic fresh frozen berries and veggies. The vet did feel that his previous owners probably had him on a crappy diet that we are now having to fight against, as well.
We're at the end of our rope. I'm beginning to wonder if he's got some kind of tumor, or head trauma we're unaware of.
He is very rickety due to arthritis, and age. We've made changes to his living environment so he can move around easier, and has less chance of falling. And the vet did suggest giving him a bit of plain aspirin mixed in with water at night to ease any pain...arthritic, or otherwise, which we have also been doing.
I would appreciate any helpful suggestions that any of you who have had old aged rescues or parrots with chronic sinus problems.
I would appreciate it if you would refrain from telling me to take him back to the vet, or to try new vets. His vet is good, and we feel he is doing the best that anyone can do. More visits are not going to help at this point.
Thank you in advance from Fred:
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