by Pajarita » Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:51 pm
Ahhhh, yes, aspergillosis is real hard to cure when the bird has a compromised immune system - that's the reason why they ended up with it in the first place because healthy birds can fight it on their own as long as the exposure to aspergillus is not for a long period of time and/or extreme. It could also have been an aspergilloma and you can only cure that with surgery AND treatment.
I rescued a bird that died from exposure to aspergillus from bad seed, also, but, in his case, it was the damage to the liver from the aflatoxin that did it and the fact that the avian vet kept on telling me he was healthy when I kept on bringing him back and telling him he was not right. That's also when I learned that the normal chem panel vets do for liver damage is not good and that you need bile acids.