Posted By: Feather
Use extreme caution when spraying - 04/01/15 09:16 PM
Use extreme caution when spraying anything around your gliders. A lady that adopted two rescues from me earlier this year called this morning, one of them was distressed and breathing hard.
She took him to the vet college and they did some X-rays, checked his mouth. Put him in an incubator with oxygen.
What they found was that his Larynx was swelling up blocking his airway. They medicated him with steroids and put him back in the incubator with oxygen.
They had no explanation as to what caused this.
When she called me back to tell me all of this, I started asking her questions:
Did you give them anything new to eat? No
Have you sprayed any bug spray in your house trailer? Ummm, Yes, my boyfriend sprayed hospital strength Lysol spray in the room because one of the kids threw up. He sprayed the air too.
I told her to call the college back and let them know about him spraying the air with the hospital strength Lysol.
Any kind of aerosol spray can irritate your sugar gliders airways and cause this kind of reaction. Please use extreme caution when using stuff like this around your sugar gliders and other pets, specially parrots and small birds.
She took him to the vet college and they did some X-rays, checked his mouth. Put him in an incubator with oxygen.
What they found was that his Larynx was swelling up blocking his airway. They medicated him with steroids and put him back in the incubator with oxygen.
They had no explanation as to what caused this.
When she called me back to tell me all of this, I started asking her questions:
Did you give them anything new to eat? No
Have you sprayed any bug spray in your house trailer? Ummm, Yes, my boyfriend sprayed hospital strength Lysol spray in the room because one of the kids threw up. He sprayed the air too.
I told her to call the college back and let them know about him spraying the air with the hospital strength Lysol.
Any kind of aerosol spray can irritate your sugar gliders airways and cause this kind of reaction. Please use extreme caution when using stuff like this around your sugar gliders and other pets, specially parrots and small birds.