Poultry Toxicity

Question 1

• Extremely toxic when inhaled by pet birds
• Sudden death due respiratory distress when O was cooking

Answer 1

Polytetrafluoroethylene

Teflon toxicosis
Non-stick cookware overheated

Question 2

• Acute onset of severe lethargy, PU/PD, and hemolysis.
• Difficult to differentiate from lead to zinc toxicosis (heavy metal panel needed)
• Droppings bright red
• Depression, dehydration
• Sometimes Amazon parrots present hemoglobinuria with lead toxicosis

Answer 2

Heavy metal toxicosis

History of chewing windowsill

Question 3

• Several vertebral and long bone abnormalities.
• Generalized stunting of embryonic development
• Reproductive toxicity in avians by binding to estrogen receptors and altering thyroid and adrenal homeostasis

Answer 3

Organophosphate insecticide

Parathion