hi guys, i was reading another forum and came across this:

 

Hi, I was given two budgies for my birthday in July, they are (I think) about 6 months old, one female and one male.

 

The female has a club foot from an injury in the avery before we got her.

 

For the last few days she has been loking poorly, she is all sort of puffed up and bloated, and her tummy looks distended, and she is hunched over her perch.

 

 

 

She took her budgie to an avian vet who didn't do any tests but gave her an antibiotic injection. The wee soul died this morning. Does anybody think this is a poor vet or am i just being over sensitive?? surely he shouldn't have let it go home until some tests were done?

Could be the poor thing died from stress due to the injection. I have an ill budgie at the moment as you know and I wont let him be injected as he stresses about the smallest of things I would rather syringe feed him myself.

 

Could be it wasnt that be its possible.

yeah maybe i just thought it was strange to give an injection without doing any tests to see what was wrong. How is your wee one doing?

Ive posted an update across the other way hehe.

 

I find is strange maybe it wasnt an avian vet afterall or they got the dosage wrong could be a number of things - poor little thing.

yeah its such a shame it was just a wee young one too! Cool i'll check it out :budgiedance:

that is so sad, I think after reading about injections I won't let it happen to my 2. ((hugs)) to her.

yeah i don't think i would let Oscar have injections either. Thanks lovey

Ozzie's had an injection and it got him better real fast. I wouldn't let Blinkie get an injection though...double standards :budgiedance: i'm so bad. Not so sure i'd let Ozzie get an injection again either....

 

From the description it sounds like the budgie was too far gone to begin with. I've had budgies that matched those symptoms by the time i got to a vet and despite treatment they died.

Yeah, it sounds like she was on her way out before she even went to the vet. Once they get that bad, there is little that can be done. I doubt the injection had anything to do with it though if he were a good vet, he definitely would've run a few tests first.

Done properly, an injection can sometimes be the quickest way to save your bird's life. On the other hand, they are very tricky as you have to be very careful not to puncture an organ. I have given injections before, and let me tell you, it is one of the scariest things I have ever done. It's definitely something for me that would have to be an utmost medical necessity, and I don't know that I would want to do them myself again.

if he were a good vet, he definitely would've run a few tests first.

 

I have to agree with Eterri before giving medication some test must be done. As the vet can not see the bird in its cage he can not inspect the droppings or its behaviour. So I would expect at lest a crop swob and a back end swob. Many be a blood test is a bit far but a quick swab test takes 5 mins and then a better diagnostic can be made.

 

I lost 1 bird to that sort of practise by a vet and questioned his knowledge as an avairian vet. I would never go back to him again. For the record I have lost two Adult birds in a year and a half. That one and one from a prolapse that died at a top avian vet. I have taken a number of my birds to the vet when I believe they need more treatment than I can give and I haven't been disapointed in the vets I now use.

yeah thats what i thought. Thanks guys.