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My African Grey parrot has diarrhea. Can I use human antibiotics?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Bird | Unknown - Bird | Male | 1 year and 4 months old | 362.874 lbs

Dr. We are living in a place were no vet doctors near our area I have a African casco bird He is sick and has diarea I contact a dr. From this website before and said that we must visit a vet doctor so he can give us a special antibiotics So can we use a human antibiotics and decrease from it ?

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Answered By Jessica Desrosiers

Veterinary Technician

Published on May 24th, 2018

Unfortunately for legal reasons, we are unable to prescribe medications over the internet without having examined a bird in person. You will need to try and find a vet in your area that can examine Sokar in order to prescribe the medication and give dosing information.

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