Some owners of parrots contain in one room with them houseplants and do not even suspect that for their pets they can bear danger of death. Before acquisition of any house flower make sure of its safety not to subject life of the parrot to invisible threat.
Poisoning with plantsThe main symptom of poisoning of a parrot with a houseplant is disorder of digestive tract which is followed by vomiting and a diarrhea. The bird refuses a forage, becomes sluggish, and in her dung it is possible to see undigested grains. If it happened to your parrot, immediately give him some absorbing medicine and urgently carry it to the veterinarian.
Try to fence off any houseplant from a cage of a parrot a curtain or blinds to make secure against unforeseen problems.
That the bird took medicine, crumb it in a drinking bowl, add to the humidified forage or mix it with water, having dug in a beak from the syringe with the removed needle or the pipette. As absorbent usual activated carbon or such medicines as Enterosgel or Enterodez which can be bought in any pharmacy well will approach.
Plants, poisonous for parrotsFirst of all, parrots cannot be in one room with such representatives of family aroidny as a dieffenbachia, an anturium, an alocasia, zamiokulkas, a calla, a monstera, a taro, a spathiphyllum, singonium, epipremnum and a philodendron. At these plants elements of secretory fabric and also protective properties are very various – at approach of a parrot to them their poisonous juice can cause hypostasis mucous a mouth and a throat.
At hit in eyes, the juice emitted by plants, poisonous for parrots, can provoke conjunctivitis and cause irreversible changes of a cornea.
Not the smaller danger to parrots is born by plants of family of a spurge family – a codiaeum, a yatrofa, actually euphorbia and an akalifa. Contains in them euforbin, causing very serious poisoning which is followed by not healing burns, ulcers, inflammations mucous and violations of the GIT functions. Attentively it is necessary to treat such representatives amarillisovy as gipperastrum, a kliviya, eukharis, gemantus and gimenokallis. They contain slime which at damage flows and the organism of a careless parrot poisons with the toxic agents. It is not recommended to hold houses and bright plants from family of a nightshade family – a brovalliya, decorative pepper, a brunfelziya, a brugmansiya, a solandra, fragrant tobacco, a dope, a belladonna or a petunia. They contain the alkaloids making parrots sick, vomiting, drowsiness and damages of the central nervous system. From coniferous plants for a parrot there can be dangerously yew tree.