Manejo alimentar inadequado e sua relação com a lipidose hepática em psitácideos: revisão de literatura

Abstract

Currently, exotic and wild species have gained space as pets. Due to their behavior, psittaciformes or parrots (parrots, cockatiels, Australian parakeet, for example) example) are commonly found as pets and are consequently present in the routine of veterinarians specializing in unconventional pets. Factors such as The owner's inexperience, lack of veterinary monitoring and the inappropriate way of acquiring the animal result in errors in food management. Offering a diet rich in fatty seeds and lacking in nutrients is associated with the incidence of diseases arising from incorrect diet and among them, liver diseases, more precisely, hepatic lipidosis. This disease is characterized by excessive accumulation of fat in the liver, with different etiologies, with the individual being able to or not demonstrate clinical signs and biochemical changes.