Budgie respiratory problem

ballerina

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Hello to everyone. My budgie had a respiratory problem and our vet proposed to have a therapy with F10. I just wanted to ask someone that had such an experience, for how long have you done the therapy and when was your budgie better?
 
@ballerina Hello and welcome, the sign of a budgie having breathing problems is the tail wagging up and down whilst resting, your vet will just nebulise the bird using steralised water with F10, this will aid and treat your bird, its always a good thing to have a nebuliser in case of emergancies, if you search for the post "National Geographic" it will show me using one with one of my birds. if you do not have one just for now you can help your bird by putting it in a room full of steam for a short time (Bathroom using the shower) i hope this helps your budgie to recover.
 
@ballerina Hello and welcome, the sign of a budgie having breathing problems is the tail wagging up and down whilst resting, your vet will just nebulise the bird using steralised water with F10, this will aid and treat your bird, its always a good thing to have a nebuliser in case of emergancies, if you search for the post "National Geographic" it will show me using one with one of my birds. if you do not have one just for now you can help your bird by putting it in a room full of steam for a short time (Bathroom using the shower) i hope this helps your budgie to recover.
Thank you for your reply. My vet has fixed a bottle of steralised water with f10 and he proposed insteadof a nebulizer(because i don't have one), to use the iron(for the clothes). I "close" the cage with a clear bag and i spray with the iron and leave it for 5-10 minutes. During the whole process i watch my budgie, in case he will need something.
My question is how long needs the budgie this therapy to recover. My vet told me tha f10 is not a dangerous medicine, so is it ok for a month? Or would it take longer? I have seen signs of improvement. Before the problem he was speaking. He hasn't spoken yet, but his is in good mood.
 
I will say four times a day for seven minutes do not get the steam of the iron too close.as the steam can become quite hot. do you have central heating? if so keep water in a bowl on top of the radiator in the room that your bird is, this will ensure that the air in the room dose not get too dry.
 
Keep a eye on Lidl as they do have a battery nebulizer on offer every so often, it will be similar to the one I was using on the national graphics thread. not that expensive, I have used mine on birds and even one lady whom had breathing problems and she was very grateful that I had it with me,
 
I will say four times a day for seven minutes do not get the steam of the iron too close.as the steam can become quite hot. do you have central heating? if so keep water in a bowl on top of the radiator in the room that your bird is, this will ensure that the air in the room dose not get too dry.
My vet told me 2-3 times per day. I am careful to the whole process, not to spray upon him with the hot steam. I have a dehydrator in the house. I will check on Lidl as you told me, but just know that the iron does a fantastic job.It's the third week i am doing the therapy, i will continue until the end of Christmas and then i will go to the vet again.
 
We took a sneezing budgie to our avian vet a few months ago and he also recommended the F10 steam treatment.

Prevention is always better than cure, so we regularly run a nebuliser and none of our birds have shown any signs of respiratory issues since. We use it with one part F10 to 250 parts water, running it for about 10 mins in a covered cage - birds, food and water removed. Vapourised F10 gets into all the tiny nooks and crannies that normal cleaning does not. The nebuliser is a good investment in your birds' health and it will quickly pay for itself.
 
We took a sneezing budgie to our avian vet a few months ago and he also recommended the F10 steam treatment.

Prevention is always better than cure, so we regularly run a nebuliser and none of our birds have shown any signs of respiratory issues since. We use it with one part F10 to 250 parts water, running it for about 10 mins in a covered cage - birds, food and water removed. Vapourised F10 gets into all the tiny nooks and crannies that normal cleaning does not. The nebuliser is a good investment in your birds' health and it will quickly pay for itself.
i see the good results, he is in a good mood, he flies in the house, he wants to be upon me like before. The only thing that didn't recover is his speech. I hope he will be able to speak again.
 
We had a similar thing with our budgie, it turned out that she had a tumour, she never recovered and passed away after a good few months, but your situation might be different.

For more info on how ours went, see this thread

edit just waiting to find the correct thread
 
The nebuliser I use is this:

I wouldn't be without one now.
 
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