Zoo giraffe with nasal toll learn how to use inhaler unit

A giraffe from the UK can finally smell the flowers after learning to use a specially designed inhaler to treat her long -term nasal flock.

Banham Zoo, located in Norfolk, England, shared the inspirational story of his 16-year-old Giraffe named Mahiri on its Facebook account. In the almost four -minute video, a spokesman for the zoo explains that the plant, up to the inhaler, has treated Mahiri’s nasal discomfort symptomatically with steroids.

“Originally she was on an oral nasal treatment. This was to dampen inflammation in general, and we saw a pretty good answer to that.” However, as spokesman noted, it is recommended that animals are not left on long -term steroid treatment, such as Mahiri’s nasal care. Instead of being due to steroids, the zoo is trying to give their animals “alternative therapies” whenever possible.

In Mahiri’s case, the Zookeepers have moved her to an inhaler treatment, which essentially “mimics what the oral steroids do, but in a much more targeted way.” The inhaler’s goal is to relax and open Mahiri’s airway to prevent emissions that affect the giraffe’s breathing from building.

In the Banham Zoo’s Clip, a zookeeper from Zoological Society of East Anglia Explains how experts designed the unit to work while Mahiri eats.

“She puts her face in it to eat the food, and we used to connect the nebulizer to the top and fill it with steam,” says the goalkeeper about the beginning of Mahiri’s inhaler treatment. For three years, Banham Zoo Mahiri, a “very nervous animal”, trained to become comfortable using an inhaler and the provisional mask that surrounds it.

Today, Zookeepers has an easy time to get Mahiri to approach and use the unit, which now gives the giraffe directly sprays from an inhaler, rather than nebulizer vapor.

“When we first started, we made about three or four puffs off it a day. We’re now up to ten of them every day,” said a zookeeper in the Banham Zoo’s Clip.

The park added that its slow and constant training program has enabled Mahiri to gain confidence at its own pace, which allows Zookeepers to maintain its health condition and drastically reduce Mahiri’s use of steroids. The training also brought Mahiri and her caregivers closer together.

In the caption of its Facebook post regarding Mahiri, the zoo confirms that the giraffe receives daily respiratory support through the inhaler delivery system, making it “the first thing ever used with a giraffe in the UK”

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The post continues to thank Mahiri for being a calm and willing participant in his own healthcare, without the need for soothing.

“This groundbreaking treatment helps her breathe more easily and live more comfortably,” ended the caption, “while promoting giraffe health care all over the world.”