If you're a bird lover and you have bird as pet, you know how dangerous Snot or Coryza disease is, especially on budgies/parakeets and lovebirds because snot is rampant in these two species.
Remember Barney, the orange faced lovebird I found and died just several days after? I lost him because of
this disease!
Snot or Coryza is a usually acute,highly infectious disease of fowl characterized by inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, especially nasal and sinus mucosae. It is caused by the bacterium Haemophilus paragallinarum. The route of infection is conjunctival or nasal with incubation period 1-3 days followed by rapid onset of disease over a 2-3 day period with the whole flock affected within 10 days. Transmission is usually by direct contact.
Symptoms that may occur : facial swelling,nasal discharge, swollen wattles, sneezing, dyspnoea,lose weight, in-appetite, drop in egg production of 10-40%.
From the information I got, untreated birds suffering from Snot Coryza will die within 2 weeks time.
Last month I noticed red flecks on Elmo's upper and lower right eye ring. At first, I thought his eye was injured when we were playing the other day. But the next day, the flecks become redder, as if he was having internal bleeding on his right eye. I had noticed that he liked to scratch his eye lately and then rubbed his eyes on his wooden perch. And he blinked his right eye quite often.
Suddenly, it dawned on me that he must be having snot!! Several weeks before, Baby Blue also suffered from this disease. I believe Baby Blue had infected Elmo since I let them play together every day and I didn't quarantined Baby Blue when he was on medication. Thank God he was finally healed by an eye-drop medicine called BioSnot.
BioSnot is a product of Indonesian Bird Farm, Ebod Jaya, who have diversified their products from birds to bird feed to various multivitamins and
medicines for birds.
BioSnot is a back-to-nature eyedrop made from flowers: Isotoma Longiflora (Star of Bethlehem)combined with Clitorian Ternatea (Blue Pea Vine or Butterfly Pea)which contains riglucoside, saponin, fenol, kaemferol, and delphinidhin which produce significant efect for eyes. In order to accelerate healing it is added with honey which is very effective to kill bacteria. It is only for external usage. So, I quickly gave him the eye drop for 3 times a day for about 5 days and ordered another snot medicine that I must feed him in order to clear the bacteria in his stomach.
Well, thank God I have stock of BioSnot at home though it's a bit expired but still good to use. And luckily I discovered the symptoms at the early stage so he's healed in a matter of days. Less than a week!
