First Aid Kit / Items You May Need in an Emergency

First Aid Protocols ... Bird Health Care

Recommended Contents for a Bird First Aid Kit:

- 1/2" Adhesive Tape
- A means for providing warmth (i.e., heat lamp, heat pad or bottle)
- Antibiotic Ointment
- Baby Blankets
- Betadine (for belly buttons)
- BFI powder (to stop bleeding)
- Bottled Water
- Hospital Cage
- Cage Covering
- Gauze Bandages / Pads (sterile)
- High Protein Baby Food (whatever your vet recommends)
- Incubator
- Hemostats
- Hospital Isolettes
- Hydrogen Peroxide Solution (3%)
- Insulin Needles
- Lactated ringers
- Nebulizer
- Needle Nose Pliers
- Nekton-Tonic
- Neocalglucon
- Nolvasan disinfectant
- Non-stick bandages

- Paper Towels
- Plastic Medicine Dropper
- Quick Stop (do not use on bird's skin or blood feather - risk of toxicity) OK to use on nails
- Revitalizing Solution
- Ricelyte/Pedialyte
- Rubbing Alcohol
- Scissors
- Small Flashlight
- Styptic Powder
- Syringes (various sizes / feeding tubes)
- Thermometer
- Travel Cage (for taking your bird to the vet)
- Tweezers
- Rubber Tubes (various sizes to empty the crop)
- Vet's / ER phone number / Directions
- Phone Number for Local Poison Control Authority
- Serene-UM for Birds, an anti-stress formula to help calm your bird.
- Manuals & Books to Guide You

Available First Aid Kit:

Bird Kit Contents:

1 - Bird Kit Case
1 - Styptic Powder (toenail/feather bleeding)
1 - Pair Latex Gloves (personal protection)
1 - 2 ml. Eye & Skin Wash (flush eyes or wounds)
1 - 1" x 6 yd. Sterile Gauze Bandage (wrap wound areas)
1 - Pair Scissors (trim feather/cut bandage tape)
1 - Pair 5" Locking Forceps (remove broken blood feathers)
2 - PVP Iodine Antiseptic Swabs (sterilization)
2 - Antiseptic Towelettes (clean wound or hands)
2 - 2" x 2" Gauze Pads (apply to wound area)
5 - Cotton Swabs (apply ointment or creams)
1 - _" x 2 _ yd. Adhesive Tape (secure band-age)
1 - Hand Wipe (personal cleanup)
1 - Bird Emergency Card (record info/vet phone number)

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