My 3-year old budgie has been vomiting for more than a month and has lost a lot of weight (she's now 27 grams). Her head is covered in vomit and she keeps rubbing her head on the perch to try to clean it. She vomits as soon as she eats and even vomits 3 to 4 times during the night. Her faeces keep changing: they range from normal to green-watery ones to dry ones with undigested seeds. I am keeping her warm using an infra-red lamp and making sure she has plenty food and water and she has a UVA/UVB lamp on during the day. I clean her cage every 2 days.
I have been to the vet 4 times and we have tried various antibiotics and medications including doxycycline, nystan (for candida), metoclopramide (for stomach motility), synulox (clavulanic acid and amoxicillin) but nothing has worked so far. Her stool sample was negative for avian gastric yeast (megabac), her crop sample was negative for candida and her blood showed increased monocytes and toxic heterophils which would suggest an infection that has been going on for a while.
We are now trying metronidazole (for trichomoniasis) which is an oral suspension that she is supposed to take 2 times a day for 4 days. The problem is that she vomits as soon as I administer the metronidazole so she's not really getting any of it in her system. Has anyone else experienced the problem of their budgie throwing up metronidazole. I am looking for tips on how I can get her to keep metronidazole down long enough for it to work. Is it possible to administer metronidazole intravenously?
I would be grateful for any advice you can give me.
